Funniest Show on Earth (1953) User Reviews

This was not Italy's First 3D movie

[mmcgee282 · 8/10 · 31 August 2021]

Italy's first 3D movie was Nozze Vagabondi. It was also in Polaroid. This was Italy's first official 3D feature. It was Toto's first appearance in 3d. It is a satire of C. B Demille's Greatest show on earth, made a year earlier. Furthermore, it was also released by the same studio, Paramount. Some humor is corny. The Cornell Wild satire, Bastian, played by, Alberto Sorrnetino, As he and Tania Weber go into the ring he starts climbing up the rope. After a few inches, he slips and hits his butt, a sack knocks him down. All of a sudden, his Left arm and hand can't move. It's paralyzed. Then Toto' offers him a job selling balloons to the audience. Later on, you see him selling ties to laid on his paralyzed arm. Then in another scene, his arm is well. This was not funny, but corny and silly. Toto' plays the Jimmy Stewart role of the clown name Tottons, but the clown is the lead star. Not the romantic lead, but, character lead. He is hiding from the law for a crime he did through clown make up. The law, played by, played by Savo libassi, is searching for him by asking everyone to measure their feet on his cardboard cut out of Toto''s foot size. This is another corny joke. Marc Lawrence, play the Chaz Heston role of the circus owner. May Britt plays the circus trainer on both elephants and an assistant to an alcoholic lion tamer played by Mario Castellani. There is a funny scene where the law is chasing Toto'and he hides in May Britt's trailer. She decides to disguise him as the lion tamer, since the real one is passed out, But she tricks him into taming the lions himself. At first, he is scared, but, then as the lion bites his hand, he grabs the lion's face and bites the lion on the one of the animal's cheek. After he succeeds in controlling the lions in the cage, as soon as he walks out and spots a white rat, he faints. He also portrays Totton's mother. In double exposure in 3D, when the clown is performing, he sees his mother watching him and goes up to her and starts to talk to her in the mist of the performance. This was supposed to be funny. This has more 3D gimmicks and less story as those who were produced by Sam Katzmann for Columbia. The scene where May Britt and Tania is having an argument which who is going to work for Bastian. They get Toto' to decide for them. The way it looks is their backs are to the camera, as if they want him to decide what is the best cleavage for Bastian to work with. Britt gives Toto' an apple to toss to which women are best. He looks sat the audience and ask us to choose for him. The two women turn to the front of the camera to reveal their costumes, not their breast. The audience chooses Tania and Toto's throw the apple at the camera. Another scene where he has taken over the ball gallery heads where his disguises himself as an Islamic. Each time the patron throw a ball at his face, he says, Allah! Then you see so many balls being thrown at the camera. After Toto knocks the raving mad lion tamer in the wax museum, the law catches up with him. He gets handcuffed, but, Marc won't let the police take him until he does a little theatrical sketch in the circus ring, which is unusual for a circus to do. In which only half of the audience can see it. In Red Skeleton style, his character plays a person getting a job at a unisex beauty parlor run by a gay character beside the owner having Toto's name changed to sound better it lead to disaster. He keeps an overweight woman client in the reducing machine that look like the cousin of Robot monster too long that she shrinks down to the size of a midget. Then he has to dress up in drag to give a woman client a massage. The close up of embarrassment in his face is funny. He ends up keeping a female client in the drier too long that she become bald headed. He started to over paint male clients' hair. Before you know it, the Neapolitan cousins of the American Keystone cops come to the rescue. It seems that the police gave up in arresting Tottons. Near the end, every performer gathers together while Toto is doing a Eulogy directed towards the lions. Now, the drunken lion tamer was not eater by any of the lions cause the character was there with everyone, so I don't know what the eulogy was all about. Oh, I forget to mention the guest celebrate appearance as the patron of the circus equivalent to the American bob hope and Bing Crosby showed up in the other version. In this version it's Anthony Quin, who would also be in Italy's second or third 3D movie with May Britt, and Silvana Mangano as the patron's. American Cinema photographer Karl Strauss, the one who was shooting I love Lucy that year too, was co shooting this film as well. This may not be the best 3D classic. It's as fair as Babes from Baghdad. It is history and if you don't mind the corn, cause there are some funny scenes. Toto' was a good actor and comedian. He just never made it internationally. Like Roberto Rosellini, Anna Magnanni, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni. Luchino Visconti, Gina Lollobrigida. He still was good and this is worth the watch. 08/31/21.