Trivia

In the United States, this German circus picture was another foreign negative pickup by Joseph E. Levine. It was dubbed into English and received wide theatrical distribution under the title "Bimbo the Great."

For the U.S. release, the poster and other promotional material made it appear as if Bimbo was a gigantic elephant. In the film, "Bimbo" was a trapeze artist trying to track down his wife's killer amides the usual circus picture cliche's.

This was another foreign negative pick-up for Joseph E. Levine. He used it to fill out the bottom of a pre-packaged double feature with his release of Karel Zeman's highly regarded "Invention for Destruction" (1958) (retitled "The Fabulous World of Jules Verne").

In the United States, some of the promotional material claimed that the film was in "Circuscope." The film was not shot in any "scope" anamorphic widescreen process.

Both of the films in this double feature, "The Fabulous World of Jules Verne" and "Bimbo the Great," were released in their original versions in their native countries (Czechoslovakia and Germany) in 1958. This double feature was not released in he United States until 1961.