Man on a Tightrope

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

Man on a Tightrope — Plot

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.

• Release date
• May 21, 1953
• Runtime
• 105 min
• Genres
• Drama, Thriller
• Director
• Elia Kazan

Man on a Tightrope — 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)