Man on a Tightrope

1953 6.5 (31 votes) 1h 45m

Genres

Drama Thriller

Production Companies

20th Century Fox
Bavaria Film

It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Elia Kazan

Story: Neil Paterson

Writer: Robert E. Sherwood

Producer: Robert L. Jacks

Director of Photography: Georg Krause

Top Cast

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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