A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery.

Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.

Two-sided painting of the German occupation in France: the acts of heroism of the maquis are opposed to the villainies of the profiteers and the drafts, all treated in the manner of the imagery of Épinal.