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Casper the Friendly Ghost goes to the circus and frightens the performers. He then saves a laughing hyena from a cruel ringmaster. But he hyena is sad. Casper does all kinds of tricks to make the hyena laugh, including juggling and eating fire, with no luck. Then, when the trainer returns with another threat, Casper pops him with a whip, and the hyena begins laughing again…

Huge gorilla Goliath is the main attraction of a carnival. Then a man is found dead with a broken neck. Was it Goliath or a man wearing a gorilla suit?...

Tragedy in the circus world : the beauty’s lover murders the husband and gets killed by a naïve guy keen to avenge the lady.

In 1950s Brooklyn, Lennie’s mother leaves his young brother Joey, 7 years old, in his care because she goes away visiting her own sick mother. But Lennie who had plans with his friends that week-end decides to play a joke on him. He stages a incident using catsup and a toy gun, so that Joey thinks he has shot and killed his brother… and flees to Coney Island, a huge New York beach dedicated to attractions and fun. He will spend a wandering day and night among the crowd and the fairground amusements…

Orphaned young Lili Daurier meets Marc. She decides to follow him and then meets the whole carny troupe he lives with. She decides to stay with them all and befriends the puppets.

Karel Cernik is a Czech circus owner. When Communists come to power, circus life is completely upset. The little troupe is not free to move anymore, everyone is asked to show his support to the government… Cernik decides to smuggle his circus out to the West.

11-year-old orphan Toby Tyler lives with his uncle and aunt in dire poverty. Convinced he is not welcomed, he manages to be hired in a traveling circus as a candy vendor. There he discovers the world of street artists and befriends handyman Ben, clown Sam and Sam’s monkey Mr. Stubbs. After the bareback rider’s fall, Toby must replace him and with his friends Ben, Sam, Mr. Stubb and Jeanette’s help, he soon becomes a star rider who wows the crowd.

Greedy family members engage in bitter infighting over the ownership of a circus. It all begins as a ruthless, corrupt father gets in trouble with the law leaving all but his youngest sons to begin a vicious battle over the business. This is the third variation of Jerome Weidman' novel I'll Never Go There Any More. The other two are Broken Lance, a western version, and House of Strangers, set in the big city.

A young sailor falls in love with a woman performing as a mermaid at the local carnival. He soon discovers that her previous boyfriends have all drowned under mysterious circumstances… Would she really be a mythic creature from the depths of sea ?

In a two-car competition, the women’s car plunges into a river and only Mary miraculously resurfaces, deeply shocked. A she drives to Utah where she has been hired as a church organist, she sees a ghoulish, pasty-faced figure. Soon she sees it everywhere and feels her mind wandering. Besides, she becomes irresistibly drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival…