King of the Carnival

King of the Carnival 1955 is a Republic movie serial. It contains a substantial amount of stock footage from the earlier Republic serial Daredevils of the Red Circle. This was the 66th and last serial ever made by Republic and is often considered to be one of the worst produced by that company. The plot concerns Treasury Agents investigating a Cold War counterfeiting operation believed to be connected to a circus.

King of the Carnival was budgeted at 172,995 although the final negative cost was 177,050 a 4,055, or 2.3, overspend. It was the cheapest Republic serial of 1955.It was filmed betweenMarch andMarch 1955 under the working title King of the Circus. At seventeen days this is the jointshortest, with Zombies of the Stratosphere, filming period of all Republic serials. The serials production number was 1800. ........

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