Man on a Tightrope

It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!

Plot Summary

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.

6.5 /10

1953

US

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