To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.

• Paramount Pictures
• Betty Hutton
• Cornel Wilde
• Charlton Heston
• Dorothy Lamour
• Gloria Grahame
• James Stewart
• Henry Wilcoxon
• Lyle Bettger