Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope (1953)

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

  • Genre: Drama, Thriller
  • Release Date: 1953-05-21
  • User Rating: 6.5/10 from 30 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 45min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: Germany, United States of America
  • Director: Elia Kazan
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From 30 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Fredric March

    as Karel Cernik
  • Terry Moore

    as Tereza Cernik
  • Gloria Grahame

    as Zama Cernik
  • Cameron Mitchell

    as Joe Vosdek
  • Adolphe Menjou

    as Fesker
  • Robert Beatty

    as Barovic
  • Richard Boone

    as Krofta
  • Alexander D'Arcy

    as Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)
  • Pat Henning

    as Konradin
  • Paul Hartman

    as Jaremir
  • John Dehner

    as The Chief
Sound Earle Hagen Orchestrator
Sound Roger Heman Sr. Sound
Costume & Make-Up Fritz Seyfried Makeup Artist
Costume & Make-Up Charles LeMaire Wardrobe Master
Costume & Make-Up Arthur Schramm Makeup Artist
Sound Martin Müller Sound
Sound Carl Becker Sound
Directing Elia Kazan Director
Production Gerd Oswald Associate Producer
Camera Georg Krause Director of Photography
Costume & Make-Up Ursula Maes Costume Design
Writing Neil Paterson Story
Production Robert L. Jacks Producer
Art Hans Kuhnert Art Direction
Writing Robert E. Sherwood Writer
Sound Franz Waxman Original Music Composer
Art Theo Zwierski Art Direction
Directing Hans Tost Assistant Director
Editing Dorothy Spencer Editor

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