1953
6.5 (30 votes)
1h 45m
Genres
Drama
Thriller
Production Companies
20th Century Fox
Bavaria Film
Bavaria Film
Man on a Tightrope
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)
