A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.
Acting
Lloyd Nolan's easygoing charm anchors the ridiculousness.
Production
Carnival atmosphere on a Poverty Row budget.
Director
John Rawlins
Lloyd Nolan
Tommy N. Thornton ('Mr. Dynamite')
Irene Hervey
Vicki Martin
Ann Gillis
Joey aka Abigail
J. Carrol Naish
'The Professor'
Robert Armstrong
Gunman
Elisabeth Risdon
Limping Woman (aka "Achilles")
Kernan Cripps
Detective
James C. Morton
The Cop in the Alley
Cliff Nazarro
Doubletalker
Shemp Howard
'Abdullah'
Rudolph Anders
Frederick the Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released six months before Pearl Harbor, this was Universal cranking out 'preparedness' pictures to warm audiences toward intervention. The saboteurs aren't named Nazis, but come on — it's 1941.
Director John Rawlins would later helm Sherlock Holmes films for Universal; this was his warm-up for bigger B-picture budgets.
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