Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)

Jumbo is a mighty talented elephant. It's also the ideal word to describe this big-time big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter and love song and dance circus stunts and star power.Radiant Doris Day sings beloved Rodgers and Hart tunes and does her own horseback riding tricks in a razzle-dazzle musical based on Billy Rose's stage spectacular and featuring circus sequences directed by Busby Berkeley. The story revolves around a circus owner (Jimmy Durante star of the 1935 Broadway original) with only two real attractions: his daughter (day) and popular pachyderm Jumbo. Three-ring pandemonium breaks out when a handsome rival (Stephen Boyd) infiltrates the circus and father daughter and Dad's wisecracking fianc e (Martha Raye) are suddenly at risk of losing the greatest show on earth!System Requirements:Length: 127 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MUSICALS/MUSICALS UPC: 012569707023 Product Description

JUMBO

The product description is correct. The big-time, big-top extravaganza bursting with laughter, love song and dance circus stunts and starpower is an absolute delight that I will cherish! July 5, 2008

Pound for pound, top notch entertainment

One of my all time sentimental favorites (did Doris Day record Sentimental Journey), and it's as good today, as it was when I first saw it in the single feature movie houses, which made your night out at the movies feel like a broadway theater engagement outing. Perhaps that is why they focused more on charm, wit, and comedy rather than mass produced non-stop action movie meyhem, competing under a single multi plex. When the lights shined bright on the marquee to focus on spectacle features such as this, with real movie stars to bank upon, rather than headliner directos who hail their savvy with mega blockbusters. JUMBO is a great movie in the tradition of what was class cinema. Drawn against the ever entertaining world of the privately owned circus, mixed with knockout songs, and "wonder" acts, this movie entertains from start to finish, and with never a dull moment. JUMBO is as big as he looks, inside and out! May 21, 2008

Jumbo

Reveived the movie in a reasonable time and the movie was in excellent condition. I LOVE the movie and hadn't seen it since I was a kid. I am so happy to own it now. March 29, 2008

JUMBO

A FEEL GOOD MOVIE COULDN'T ASK FOR A MORE ENJOYABLE FILM. March 19, 2008

Doris Day's Charming!

This may not be Doris Day's best musical, but it is enjoyable and fun to watch! This was her last musical, though, which is unfortunate because she is such a talented singer!
Doris Day plays Kitty Wonder who's father, Pop Wonder (Jimmy Durante), owns a struggling circus that's main attraction is a huge elephant, Jumbo. Their rival circus - The John Noble Show - wants the elephant so the owner sends his son Sam (Stephen Boyd) over to the Wonder circus to get it. Sam gets a job working at Pop Wonder's circus and ends up falling in love with Kitty. One night while they are doing a show, Sam saves Kitty from a near-fatal accident and decides to tell his father he's not going through with the plan to steal the elephant. While Sam is gone his father comes and closes down their circus and takes Jumbo. But off course, it all ends well when Sam recovers Jumbo and returns him to Pop and Kitty.
My favorite part of this movie would have to be "The Most Beautiful Girl In the World" number that Doris Day and Stephen Boyd do together! March 6, 2008

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