Man on a Tightrope
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“It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!”
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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Cast
12 people
Fredric March
Karel Cernik
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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Terry Moore
Tereza Cernik
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Mighty Joe Young
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Gloria Grahame
Zama Cernik
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In a Lonely Place
It's a Wonderful Life
Cameron Mitchell
Joe Vosdek
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Blood and Black Lace
The Toolbox Murders
Adolphe Menjou
Fesker
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Paths of Glory
The Front Page
Robert Beatty
Barovic
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Jesus of Nazareth
Richard Boone
Krofta
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Big Jake
The Hobbit
Alexander D'Arcy
Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)
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The Awful Truth
Horrors of Spider Island
Pat Henning
Konradin
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On the Waterfront
Paul Hartman
Jaremir
Known for
Inherit the Wind
The Andy Griffith Show
John Dehner
The Chief
Known for
Airplane II: The Sequel
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Gert Fröbe
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Goldfinger
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Elia Kazan Director · Robert E. Sherwood Writer Neil Paterson Story
Budget $1.2M · United States release June 4, 1953 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$1,200,000
Production
20th Century Fox
Production
Bavaria Film
Production
20th Century Studios
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · April 1, 1953
Premiere · Los Angeles, California
United States · June 4, 1953
Theatrical
United Kingdom
May 21, 1953 · Theatrical · London
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