A struggling circus owner (Victor Mature) takes out a large loan from a bank in order to save his circus but the loan comes with conditions. A bank accountant (Red Buttons) and a press agent (Rhonda Fleming) are assigned to the circus to watch out for the bank's interest but they are the least of Mature's worries. There's a saboteur right under his nose trying to destroy the circus. Directed by Joseph M. Newman, this is a retread of Cecil B. DeMille's
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH but I like it better than that bloated best picture Oscar winner. It's not burdened down with lengthy globs of time devoted to tedious circus acts that drag the movie down and there's none of that droning and pretentious DeMille narration telling us how noble circus people are. This one moves along swiftly giving us just enough glimpses of the circus to whet our appetite without making it into a documentary. With Vincent Price (wasted as the circus ringmaster), Gilbert Roland, Kathryn Grant, Peter Lorre, David Nelson and Adele Mara.
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