Trapeze
DramaRomance
6.2/10
|US
|en
|105 min
Release Date: 1956-05-30
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Joanna ProductionsHecht-Lancaster Productions
User Reviews
John Chard
6/10
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 sequences set to the backdrop of circus life. The love triangle between the three leads (our intrepid trapez...
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Wuchak
6/10
**_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 going great until an alluring tumbler worms her way into their act (Lollobrigida). "Trapeze” (1956...
