Dumbo 2019 🎥 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Equestrian performer Holt Farrier returns after World War I to his previous employer, the Medici Brothers’ Circus. The circus has run into financial troubles; Ringmaster Medici reveals he was forced to sell his horses after Holt’s wife, Annie, died from the Spanish flu outbreak. After Holt reveals that he lost his arm in the Battle of the Argonne, Medici instead hires him as the caretaker for Mother Ella Jumbo, the circus’ pregnant Indian elephant. She gives birth to a calf with unusually large ears, and Medici orders Holt to hide them, fearing how the public might react to such a deformity.

However, the calf accidentally reveals his ears in his debut performance in Joplin, Missouri, and the crowd laughs and mockingly calls the calf “Dumbo” while pelting him with objects. Mrs. Jumbo, angered by her son’s abuse, rampages into the ring, causing extensive damage, collapsing the big top, and accidentally killing Rufus, a sadistic handler. Anticipating public outrage over the incident, Medici sells Mrs. Jumbo. Holt’s son and daughter, Joe and Milly Farrier, comfort Dumbo and discover that he can fly by flapping his ears and that feathers benefit his willingness to fly. Dumbo is then forced to play the role of a firefighter clown tasked to put out a fire with water sprayed from his trunk, but the performance goes awry, and Dumbo is trapped on a high platform surrounded by flames.

Milly delivers a feather to Dumbo, giving him the confidence to fly to safety. The audience is astounded, and word of his talent begins to spread. V. A. Vandevere, the wealthy owner of the Bohemian amusement park Dreamland, approaches Medici and proposes a collaboration: If Medici becomes Vandevere’s business partner, the Medici Brothers’ Circus’ troupe will permanently be employed to perform at Dreamland. Dumbo’s debut performance at Dreamland with Vandevere’s star performer, French trapeze artist Colette Marchant.

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