Please Help me Identify a Movie

[StClone]

Help me identify a 50's or 60's movie that depicts an actual carnival that develops at the site of an unfolding tragedy (I think a mine cave-in). The movie culminates with eventual death of the people involved as the Carnival-like atmosphere reaches a near frenzy. The trivialization of the tragedy and its particular effect on a family involved was part of the storyline.

DUn't leave me down. (You never have before!)

[Gildor Inglorion]

1. "Ace in the Hole" aka "The Big Carnival" 1951

[StClone]

4. That may be in it!

I need to check further.

Thanks!

[AtomicKitten]

2. Well I don't know that movie

but "Freaks" is pretty cool.

[shrdlu]

3. Try "Ace in the Hole"

I believe it is based on the plight of Floyd Collins who was trapped in a Kentucky coal mine.

[TlalocW]

5. It was...

The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.

A real movie that took place at a carnival - spoofed on MST3K.

TlalocW