The Big Show (1961 film)

The Big Show
Directed byJames B. Clark
Written byTed Sherdeman
Based onI'll Never Go There Any More
1941 novel
by Jerome Weidman
Produced byJames B. Clark
Ted Sherdeman
StarringEsther Williams
Cliff Robertson
Nehemiah Persoff
CinematographyOtto Heller
Edited byBenjamin Laird
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • July 14, 1961 (1961-07-14)
Running time
113 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$830,000[1] or $1 million[2]

The Big Show is a 1961 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope drama film directed by James B. Clark, starring Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson. The cast also includes Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff and David Nelson,[3][4] who was best known to audiences of the time for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet television show.[5]

This is the third variation of Jerome Weidman's novel I'll Never Go There Any More.[6] The other two are Broken Lance (1954) a western version starring Spencer Tracy, and House of Strangers (1949) set in the big city starring Edward G. Robinson.[7]

It was Lippert's most expensive film.[1]

  1. ^ a b "As 20th All-Big Lippert Helms Budget Features". Variety. 12 April 1961. p. 4.
  2. ^ "Bob Lippert in NY for upped budget". Variety. 3 March 1961. p. 3.
  3. ^ Blum 1962, p. 40.
  4. ^ "The Big Show". Turner Classic Movies. Atlanta: Turner Broadcasting System (Time Warner). Retrieved November 14, 2016.
  5. ^ "BIG SHOW, the". Monthly Film Bulletin. Vol. 28. 1961. p. 79. ProQuest 1305821431.
  6. ^ Weidman, Jerome (1941). I'll Never Go There Any More (1st ed.). New York City: Simon & Schuster. ASIN B0007E3RPY.
  7. ^ "The Big Show". AllMovie. Retrieved November 14, 2016.