The Big Show the only featurelength motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers is a behindthescenes melodrama set within their show The story Bill a war veteran who has been defrauded by his brother rescues Ruth the elephant girl and joins the company Secretly engaged to Bills bad brother Normanallegedly an oil millionaireRuth rebuffs her rescuers affection Her elephant however knows a villain when he smells one and eventually gives Norman his just deserts Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation New Zealand Project in 2012