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Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope

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Sep 29, 2020
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Elia Kazan's 1953 film follows a poor circus in then-contemporary Czechoslovakia.  The wonderful Two-time Oscar winner, Frederic March, is the head of said circus.  He has a daughter falling for a mysterious drifter and a bitter wife who does not have an act in the circus (but that doesn't mean she gets no action).  Various members of the troupe are old…

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