Man on a Tightrope
May 21, 1953 | IMDB 6.5
105 min Watch NowDrama, Thriller
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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