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Man on a Tightrope

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

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NR 1953 · 1h 45m
Drama, Thriller
Starring Fredric March · Terry Moore · Gloria Grahame
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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.

Theatrical
Jun 4, 1953
Director
Elia Kazan
Writer
Neil Paterson
Producers
Gerd Oswald, Robert L. Jacks
Music
Franz Waxman
Studio
20th Century Fox, Bavaria Film
Keywords
circus iron curtain czechoslovakia anti-communism black and white defection communism circus troupe escape plan cold war era
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F
Fredric March
Karel Cernik
T
Terry Moore
Tereza Cernik
G
Gloria Grahame
Zama Cernik
C
Cameron Mitchell
Joe Vosdek
A
Adolphe Menjou
Fesker
R
Robert Beatty
Barovic
R
Richard Boone
Krofta
A
Alexander D'Arcy
Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)
P
Pat Henning
Konradin
P
Paul Hartman
Jaremir
J
John Dehner
The Chief
G
Gert Fröbe

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