The screenplay concerns a down-on-its-luck circus that uses an Aladdin's Magic Lamp to try to save their business.

There we were writing for the Crazy Gang again, and all the boys got together again; we made this circus film for which we put up a big tent in Windsor, near the castle and shot it.

"[3] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Script and settings here simply provide a flimsy framework for knockabout antics in which the Crazy Gang disarm criticism by their innocent and undisciplined enthusiasm.

As writer-director, Val Guest seems to take control only for an elaborate and hilarious trapeze sequence and the rather tedious romantic interludes with the self-consciously charming Michael Holliday.

The woodenness of the small team of extras, and the almost total absence of children, make the circus and funfair scenes strikingly unplausible.