Escape's "Carnival in Vienna" is a story about forgery, deception, murder, and a mechanical laughing clown.
John Ashcroft Allison works as the front gate superintendant for a carnival in Austria. As the episode opens, he is admiring himself in a mirror, and his girlfriend, Lilly, tells him that he is vain... and that she knows he was once a thief. She also knows that he came to Europe to hide from forgery charges in the United States. John doesn't deny his background, but he is sorry that she heard about it from someone else.
The other carnival folk mock John's vanity, but Lilly loves and believes him. She has faith that he won't go back to his old ways, but as it turns out, John returns to his old ways that same afternoon.
With a little forgery, luck, and a broken ferris wheel, John steals a fortune, but will Lilly still want him?
"Carnival in Vienna" was written/directed by David Friedkin and Morton Fine. Jack Moyles, Lillian Buyeff, Jack Kruschen, and Hans Conried appeared. This episode aired on September 11, 1954.
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Who provided the voice of the clown?
The recording i listened to was a bit rough, but it wounded like John Dehner to me. I could easily be mistaken about that though.
Posted by: Atoz | May 05, 2018 at 06:49 PM