Trapeze
High...High...High...Above Them All! - in excitement! - in spectacle! - in fire, flesh and fury!
Country
Production
Budget
$4 000 000
Box office
$14 400 000
Director
Actors
Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez, Johnny Puleo, Minor Watson, Gérard Landry, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Sidney James
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Wolf Mankowitz, Ben Hecht
Producer
James Hill
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Rino Mondellini
Audition
Editing
Bert Bates
Whole Team (21)
Whole Team (21)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Burt Lancaster (1913-1994) was 41 years old at the time of filming, and he performed all the trapeze stunts himself, except for one (before starting his film career, he was a circus acrobat). Lancaster insisted on performing a triple jump on the trapeze himself, however Eddie Ward, a technical consultant from the Ringling Brothers Circus, was unsure if this was advisable and, during the first weeks of filming, replaced Lancaster altogether. Eventually, director Carol Reed (1906-1976) hired Nick Cravat (1912-1994) – a circus performer, actor, and stuntman – to perform the stunts.
- During filming, Gina Lollobrigida’s stunt double fell from a height of 12 meters, broke her spine, and soon died.
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