Wax figures with diamond eyes? This carnival's weirder than your ex's dating history.
A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He finally locates the jewels hidden as the eyes of wax figures.
Production
Carnival sets built on a shoestring that somehow work.
Acting
John Abbott's suspicious Frenchman steals every scene.
Director
Jean Yarbrough
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jean Yarbrough directed over 100 B-pictures including multiple Bowery Boys entries—this was basically his Tuesday.
The 'carnival as criminal front' trope peaked in this era, feeding post-war anxieties about transient labor and American rootlessness.
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