Perhaps too subtle for me; I found this one quite dull, and lacking the kind of suspense that the escape-the-authorities plot needs. A shame, as it's well mounted for sure, and the circus setting is, as ever, an entertaining one, and the cast - including luminaries like Cameron Mitchell, Gloria Grahame and Fredric March - is to die for. But it simply didn't do it for me.
Review of Man on a Tightrope
