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Release Date:
May 21, 1953
Original Title:
Man on a Tightrope
Genres:
Drama | Thriller
Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Bavaria Film
Production Countries:
Germany | United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
US: NR
Runtime: 105
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.
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Art Direction:
Hans Kuhnert
Theo Zwierski
Assistant Director:
Hans Tost
Associate Producer:
Gerd Oswald
Costume Design:
Ursula Maes
Director:
Elia Kazan
Director of Photography:
Georg Krause
Editor:
Dorothy Spencer
Makeup Artist:
Arthur Schramm
Fritz Seyfried
Orchestrator:
Earle Hagen
Original Music Composer:
Franz Waxman
Producer:
Robert L. Jacks
Sound:
Carl Becker
Martin Müller
Roger Heman Sr.
Story:
Neil Paterson
Wardrobe Master:
Charles LeMaire
Writer:
Robert E. Sherwood
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