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Man on a Tightrope
"It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!"
User Score32 votes
65%6.5/10
Release1953→
Runtime1H 45M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
Principal Cast8
Fredric March
Karel Cernik
Terry Moore
Tereza Cernik
Gloria Grahame
Zama Cernik
Cameron Mitchell
Joe Vosdek
Adolphe Menjou
Fesker
Robert Beatty
Barovic
Richard Boone
Krofta
Alexander D'Arcy
Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)
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Elia Kazan
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NRKeywords
circusiron curtainczechoslovakiaanti-communismblack and whitedefectioncommunismcircus troupeescape plancold war eraescape from communism
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Production:20th Century FoxBavaria Film