A fox steals the world's most valuable diamond, buries it for safekeeping, then watches helplessly as a circus sets up directly on top of it. The premise is so ridiculous it loops back around to genius: a heist movie where the criminal is immediately, catastrophically outplayed by pure accident. The comedy lives in watching someone desperately try to retrieve their own theft from a crowd of clueless animals who think they found a shiny rock, the whole thing spiraling into beautiful chaos inside a circus tent.

A fox steals the most valuable diamond in the world and buries it under a tree, sure that nobody will find it there. The following day a circus arrives and pitches its tent beside that very tree. Its animals dig up the diamond without meaning to and take it for an ordinary, worthless rock. Before long they lose it somewhere inside the circus, and the desperate fox tries to get his loot back before the other animals figure out what they have. Made in Japan in 1948, the short comedy film was later dubbed into English and released in the US as The Big Top Crime.