The Big Show, the only feature-length motion picture produced by the Miller Brothers, is a behind-the-scenes melodrama set within their show. The story is nothing special: John Lowell, as Bill, a war veteran who has been defrauded by his brother, rescues Ruth, the elephant girl (Evangeline Russell) and joins the company. Secretly engaged to Bill's "bad brotherâ? Normanâ??allegedly an oil millionaireâ??Ruth rebuffs her rescuer's affection. Her elephant, however, knows a villain when he smells one and eventually gives Norman his just deserts.