Trapeze

Trapeze (1956)

  • 60% of critics liked it
    (5 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (418 ratings)

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… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 45 min.
Directed By
Carol Reed
Written By
Max Catto, Liam O'Brien
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1956 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

    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.

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Tacky circus thriller and overwrought love triangle melodrama.

  • Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

    (No quote available.)

  • Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena

    Boas atuaçőes de Lancaster e Curtis (além de Lollobrigida, detestável em boa parte do filme) e ótimas cenas no trapézio. O final é um pouco decepcionante, mas, no geral, o filme prende e é bem realizado.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • moon r


    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.

  • Barry L


    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.

  • Keith M


    Burt in the circus?!?!....I'm there.

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