A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
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Burt Lancaster
Mike Ribble
Tony Curtis
Tino Orsini
Gina Lollobrigida
Lola
Katy Jurado
Rosa
Thomas Gomez
Bouglione
Johnny Puleo
Max
Minor Watson
John Ringling North
Gérard Landry
Chikki
Jean-Pierre Kérien
Otto
Sidney James
Snake Charmer
Director
Carol Reed
Screenplay
James R. Webb
Tagline
"High...High...High...Above Them All! - in excitement! - in spectacle! - in fire, flesh and fury!"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$4,000,000
Revenue
$14,400,000
Production
Joanna Productions, Hecht-Lancaster Productions
John Chard
August 4, 2019
Great role for Burt in Carol Reed's love tryst circus plot. Great curio piece with Burt Lancaster being a former circus performer, the film was something of a big success on its initial release. It's not hard to see why either, because it's a solid enough story backed up by great aerial sequences set to the backdrop of circus life. The love triangle between the three leads (our intrepid trapez...
Wuchak
October 20, 2022
**_Corny love triangle at a circus in France with Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida_** A disillusioned former aerobatics star functioning as a rigger at a Paris circus (Lancaster) is revived when a young prodigy from Brooklyn comes under his coaching wing (Curtis). Everything’s going great until an alluring tumbler worms her way into their act (Lollobrigida). "Trapeze” (1956...
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