Summary
A sun-bleached cowboy, fired for crooning to the horizon, trudges off the range with nothing but a cantankerous mule and a head full of frontier ballads, only to stumble beneath canvas spires where sawdust smells like revolution. Amid tiger cages and trapeze shadows he re-encounters Gloria—ember-eyed, ringmaster’s daughter, exile’s child—whose glance once brushed his in a half-remembered dance. Between lion tamer whips and calliope thunder their flirtation ignites into a duel of hearts, fists, and national destinies: the circus becomes crucible, the big top a war room. Gloria’s deposed-president father, scenting valor in Hank’s knuckles, drafts the drifter to spearhead a counter-coup across the oceanic night toward Bargravia, a postage-stamp republic where marble halls echo with gunfire and memory. Jealous Pedro—gold-braided fiancé, relic of old-world contracts—plots abduction, yet every rope trussing Hank unravels like fate favoring fools. Escaping keel-hauled freighters and sabotage on moonlit docks, Hank lands in Bargravia’s cobalt mountains, rallying shepherds and deserters beneath a banner stitched from circus silks. When the final cannonade fades, a tarnished ranch hand stands beneath a blood-orange flag, hitched not merely to a nation reborn but to a woman who taught him that home is the reckless cartwheel of the heart.
Synopsis
When he loses his job as ranch hand for singing during work hours, Hank Sherman takes his pet mule and joins a circus. There he meets Gloria Gómez, with whom he had indulged in a mild flirtation, and emerges victorious from a tangle with circus employees. Gloria's father, the ex-president of the Republic of Bargravia, admires Hank's valor and selects him as leader of a counter-revolutionary movement in his country. Gloria forces her fiancé, Pedro, whom she dislikes, to accept Hank, but Pedro becomes jealous and has his rival kidnapped. Hank succeeds in escaping and embarking for Bargravia; there, Pedro attempts to foil Hank's plans but is defeated. After desperate fighting, Gloria's father regains his post and she weds Hank.
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