Man on a Tightrope
It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!
6.6(33) 1953-05-21 105 minDramaThriller
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.
DirectorElia Kazan
WriterRobert E. Sherwood
ProducerRobert L. Jacks
Original Music ComposerFranz Waxman
Cast & characters
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
Gert Fröbe
as —
