Carnival Story is flat melodrama of an American travelling circus in post war Germany.
Willi (Anne Baxter) is a destitute German girl who picks the pocket of Joe (Steve Cochran) who works for the travelling circus. He seems kind hearted enough and gets her a job in the circus and she falls for Joe.
However Frank (Lyle Bettger) a talented high dive act, teaches Willi to dive and both become a sensation in the show. Frank proposes marriage to Willi who accepts. Joe turns heel, he is nonchalant that she is marrying Frank, telling her that he can still have her after she has married.
The trouble is Willi against her better judgment always carried a torch for bad boy Joe and then Frank dies in a suspicious accident, soon after he got into a fight with Joe over him creeping around his wife.
The film is rather sluggish and the direction is rather workmanlike with its colour badly faded. It takes an age to get going and it is hard to like Willi who seems fatally attracted to sleazy Joe.
Willi (Anne Baxter) is a destitute German girl who picks the pocket of Joe (Steve Cochran) who works for the travelling circus. He seems kind hearted enough and gets her a job in the circus and she falls for Joe.
However Frank (Lyle Bettger) a talented high dive act, teaches Willi to dive and both become a sensation in the show. Frank proposes marriage to Willi who accepts. Joe turns heel, he is nonchalant that she is marrying Frank, telling her that he can still have her after she has married.
The trouble is Willi against her better judgment always carried a torch for bad boy Joe and then Frank dies in a suspicious accident, soon after he got into a fight with Joe over him creeping around his wife.
The film is rather sluggish and the direction is rather workmanlike with its colour badly faded. It takes an age to get going and it is hard to like Willi who seems fatally attracted to sleazy Joe.