Released:
1926-10-15

Overview:
The Big Show, the only feature-length motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers, is a behind-the-scenes melodrama set within their show. The story: Bill, a war veteran who has been defrauded by his brother, rescues Ruth, the elephant girl, and joins the company. Secretly engaged to Bill’s “bad brother” Norman—allegedly an oil millionaire—Ruth rebuffs her rescuer’s affection. Her elephant, however, knows a villain when he smells one and eventually gives Norman his just deserts. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project in 2012.

Director:
George Terwilliger

Runtime:
1h 16min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  John Lowell
  as
  Bill
• 
  Evangeline Russell
  as
  Ruth Gordon
• 
  F. Serrano Keating
  as
  Norman Brackett
• 
  Jane Thomas
  as
  Marian Kearney
• 
  Joseph Miller
  as
  Col Jim Kearney