It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!
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.
Directed byElia Kazan
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- May 21, 1953
Watch the
Trailers & teasers
Featuring
Cast & crew
Fredric March
Karel Cernik
Terry Moore
Tereza Cernik
Gloria Grahame
Zama Cernik
Cameron Mitchell
Joe Vosdek
Adolphe Menjou
Fesker
Robert Beatty
Barovic
Richard Boone
Krofta
Alexander D'Arcy
Rudolph (as Alex D'Arcy)
Pat Henning
Konradin
Paul Hartman
Jaremir
- Directed by
- Elia Kazan
- Written by
- Neil Paterson
Robert E. Sherwood
- Produced by
- Robert L. Jacks
Keep watching
More like this
6.830 Days in Prison
1966 · Film
6.2The Serpent's Egg
1977 · Film
10.0A Universal Love Story
Film
Tyngsboro
2024 · Film
سجى الليل
1948 · Film
6.7Family Nest
1979 · Film
Empty
Film
7.0The Newspaper Seller
1963 · Film
5.0Arnold
2018 · Film
8.0One Hundred a Day
1973 · Film
7.1The Snake Pit
1948 · Film
7.0Until Tomorrow, Comrades
2013 · Film
6.7After We Have Left Our Homes
2017 · Film
7.0Driven from Paradise
1965 · Film
Lights Left Behind
2021 · Film
The Rebellious
1963 · Film
5.0The Ferryman
2023 · Film
Picked for you
Recommended movies
7.0Saving Flora
2019 · Film
8.8The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act
2026 · Film
6.2Circus World
1964 · Film
6.0Figures in a Landscape
1970 · Film
6.8The Colditz Story
1955 · Film
7.2Night Train to Munich
1940 · Film
6.4Octopussy
1983 · Film
8.0North by Northwest
1959 · Film
7.2The Defiant Ones
1958 · Film
6.6The White Crow
2018 · Film
7.3Dark Passage
1947 · Film
6.1Night Crossing
1982 · Film
6.7The Unholy Three
1925 · Film
6.1The Undercover Man
1949 · Film
5.9The Quiller Memorandum
1966 · Film
7.7Big Fish
2003 · Film
6.4Funeral in Berlin
1966 · Film
7.9The Greatest Showman
2017 · Film
6.4Mighty Joe Young
1949 · Film
6.8The Seventh Cross
1944 · Film