Man on a Tightrope
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.
- Year: 1953
- Country: Germany, United States of America
- Genre: Drama, Thriller
- Studio: 20th Century Fox, Bavaria Film
- Keyword: circus, iron curtain, czechoslovakia, anti-communism, black and white, defection, communism, circus troupe, escape plan, cold war era, escape from communism
- Director: Elia Kazan
- Cast: Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Cameron Mitchell, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Beatty