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塞西尔．B．戴米尔执导的这部影片，获得第二十五届奥斯卡最佳影片和最佳电影故事两项大奖。面对电视界的蓬勃发展，饱受威协的电影界，在这届选择了一部足以压倒电视气势的超级豪华大制作，作为这一届的最佳影片得主。故事描述一个在财政上出现问题的马戏团，为了让团员继续作一整季的表演，签下了有着名空中飞人圣巴斯蒂安加盟的演出。这使一心想在新一季成名的女空中飞人哈莉大为不满，另外经理布莱特为了事业一直刻意冷落暗恋他的哈莉。蒂安却因一次表演危险性高的动作发生意外，跌断了一只手而断送了表演前途。同时一名十年前失手杀妻的医生以小丑身份在马戏团里表演，后因火车翻覆而救布莱特，被警察发现。哈莉因此而被感动，于是对布莱特重燃爱火，并负起整顿马戏团表演的工作。查尔顿．赫斯登和康奈尔．威尔德的表演相当不错。。Eburi is a 36 year-old man. Nothing enthuses him any more. While being drunk, he promises to contribute a story to a magazine. When he sobers down, he decides to write about the life of a salaried employee like himself who is very ordinary, not particularly talented. The following is his story: In 1949, Eburi gets married to Natsuko. His monthly salary is 8,000 yen and hers 4,000 yen. Therefore, both have to work to support themselves. Eburi has developed a habituIl tendency to pester around when he gets drunk. One year after their marriage, son Shosuke is born. In 1959, Eburi's mother dies in despair of her husband who has become listless due to the several ups and downs of gaining big profits and going bankrupt. His father is still alive and Eburi is enable to find a way to pay his father's debts. He is doubtful if he can make his wife and child happy. Nevertheless, he has somehow managed to survive so far, living in one of the houses at the employee housing quarters. He gives the title "The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman" to his story of half novel and half essay style. When it is published, it receives the Naoki Literary Prize (the award given in memory of popular writer Naoki Sanjugo). At a party to celebrate his award, he gets drunk and pesters around. Notes The film is based on a novel written in the style of an essay under the same title by Yamaguchi Hitomi, depicting everyday life of a man categorized as "During-the-war Generation" who spent school days during the war and get married to start new life in the struggling post-war era. "Everyman" in the title means an average salaried employee who makes up an overwhelming majority of the city population in Japan, and "The Elegant Life" indicates sarcasm on betterment of the standard of living of ordinary salaried employees accompanied with Japan's economic growth after only a decade from the destroyed post-war period. As depicted in the film, the author Yamaguchi Hitomi was awarded the Naoki Literature Prize for this story. When he established himself well enough to become independent, he quit working as a salaried employee. Director Okamoto Kihachi and the leading actor Kobayashi Keiju belong to the same generation as the author. Exploiting innovative effects such as inserting animation sequences, the film humorously presents compassion of a middle-aged salaried employee. Kobayashi Keiju, who was originally noted for his excellent portrayal of salaried employee, won the best leading actor award of the Mainichi Film Contest for his superb performance in this picture.。