“High...High...High...Above Them All! - in excitement! - in spectacle! - in fire, flesh and fury!”
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.
Carol Reed
James Hill
Wolf Mankowitz
Ben Hecht
James R. Webb
Robert Krasker
Malcolm Arnold
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
Sid James
Snake Charmer
Los Arriolas
Specialty Act
Gamil Ratib
Stefan
... and 6 more
John Chard
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 sequence...
Wuchak
**_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 go...
Trapeze (1956) trailer
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