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"Cornel Wilde - The Great Sebastian"
"Thrill to Cecil B. DeMille's pageantry and excitement!"
"Brad Johnson - unnamed reporter"
"Lawrence Tierney - Mr. Henderson"
"Love! Laughter! Thrills! Wonders! Suspense! Spectacle! Heart!"
"James Stewart - Buttons the Clown"
"Lillian Albertson - Buttons' mother"
"Bob Carson - Ringmaster"
"Lyle Bettger - Klaus"
"John Kellogg - Harry"
"Betty Hutton - Holly"
"Midway barker: [last lines] That's all, ladies and gentlemen, that's all. Come again to the greatest show on earth. Bring the children. Bring the old folks. You can shake the sawdust off your feet, but you can't shake it outta your heart. Come again, folks. The Greatest Show on Earth. Come again."
"The motion picture for everyone!"
"Charlton Heston - Brad Braden"
"[to Holly, as his blood is being transfused into Brad] If he should make love well after this, pay no attention - it will be me."
"Julia Faye - Birdie"
"John Ridgely - Assistant Manager"
"Frank Wilcox - Circus doctor"
"[while Buttons is doing first aid] Buttons! If that detective sees you doing this, he won't need fingerprints!"
"Mightiest of Motion Pictures!"
"Gloria Grahame - Angel"
"Henry Wilcoxon - FBI Agent Gregory"
"Dorothy Lamour - Phyllis"
"Edmond O'Brien - Narrator"
"Listen, sugar, the only way that you can keep me warm is to wrap me up in a marriage license."
"Narrator: [first lines] We bring you the circus, pied piper whose magic tunes greet children of all ages, from six to 60, into a tinsel and spun-candy world of reckless beauty and mounting laughter and whirling thrills; of rhythm, excitement and grace; of blaring and daring and dance; of high-stepping horses and high-flying stars. But behind all this, the circus is a massive machine whose very life depends on discipline and motion and speed. A mechanized army on wheels, that rolls over any obstacle in its path, that meets calamity again and again, but always comes up smiling. A place where disaster and tragedy stalk the big top, haunt the backyard, and ride the circus train. Where death is constantly watching for one frayed rope, one weak link, or one trace of fear. A fierce, primitive fighting force that smashes relentlessly forward against impossible odds. That is the circus. And this is the story of the biggest of the big tops, and of the men and women who fight to make it "The Greatest Show on Earth.""
"- Min-hyuk, family friend of the Kims"
"Park Myung-hoon β Geun-sae, Moon-gwang's husband"
"Park Geun-rok β Yoon, the former Park family chauffeur"
"- Choi Yeon-gyo, mother of the Park family"
"- Park Da-hye, daughter of the Park family"
"Jang Hye-jin β Kim Chung-sook, mother of the Kim family and housekeeper"
"Jung Hyeon-jun β Park Da-song, son of the Park family"
"- Park Dong-ik, father of the Park family"
"- Kim Ki-woo, son of the Kim family and Da-hye's English tutor"
"Song Kang-ho - Kim Ki-taek, father of the Kim family and Park family chauffeur"
"[to his son] You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. Look around you. Did you think these people made a plan to sleep in the sports hall with you? But here we are now, sleeping together on the floor. So, there's no need for a plan. You can't go wrong with no plans. We don't need to make a plan for anything. It doesn't matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it?"
"Park So-dam - Kim Ki-jeong, daughter of the Kim family and Da-song's art therapist"
"What are you, a family of charlatans?"
"- Gook Moon-gwang, the former housekeeper"
"RisΓ« Stevens β Genevieve Linden (Jenny Tuffel)"
"Porter Hall β Mr. Belknap"
"Fortunio Bonanova β Tomaso Bozanni"
"Frank McHugh β Father Timothy O'Dowd"
"Barry Fitzgerald β Father Fitzgibbon"
"Jean Heather β Carol James/Haines"
"James Brown β Ted Haines, Jr."
"When the St. Louis Browns lost Bing, the Cardinal got a good singer!"
"Bing Crosby β Father Chuck O'Malley"
"Gene Lockhart β Ted Haines, Sr."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.