Trapeze (1956)
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air somersault. Tony Curtis co-stars as an aspiring aerialist who coerces Lancaster into teaching him the tricks of the trade. The friendship between Lancaster and Curtis is threatened by the arrival of beautiful, ambitious circus tumbler Gina Lollobridgida (it's a toss-up as to which of the three … More
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Genre: | Drama, Action & Adventure |
| Directed By: | Carol Reed |
| Written By: | Max Catto, Liam O'Brien, James R. Webb |
| In Theaters: | May 30, 1956 Wide |
| On DVD: | Nov 17, 2009 |
| Runtime: |
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Enjoyable trash: Carol Reed's circus melodrama is one of his most commercially successful but artistically weakest film; there's more erotic tension between Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis than between either man and love interest Gina Lillobrigida.
Tacky circus thriller and overwrought love triangle melodrama.
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Audience Reviews for Trapeze
Lancaster and Curtis team up in Paris to try and attempt the very difficult triple somersault on the trapeze AND Gina Lollobrigida. It's circus life menage á trois with a side order of melodrama. Interesting yet unengaging.
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Lancaster was a great actor and the stunts he did himself were unbeleivable by todays hollywood actors. Great movie of love, life and swinging through the air on a rope...what more can you ask for.
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Burt in the circus?!?!....I'm there.
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