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Dwarfism: Minor Films   no photo.
TitleMan On a Tightrope (1953)
Alternative/Original Title
DisabilityDwarf
CountryUSA
Length105
GenreCircus
Rating3
DirectorElia Kazan
CastFredric March Terry Moore Gloria Grahame Adolphe Menjou Cameron Mitchell Richard Boone
NotesB/W Set in Czechoslovakia c. 1952 at the height of the cold war. The Circus Cirnik is on the road and we see signs of the police state they're in. There's a dwarf, of course, who acts at first as comic relief. he goes around drinking other people's drinks. Treated as a pet or a joker. Later the dwarf is chucked out of circus for stealing a cruxifix. Boss is teased with the line "At last you've found someone you're not afraid of -- a dwarf." The boss's plan is to cross the border (to freedom?) but the dwarf is spying on them. An authentic atmosphere is created but otherwise everything generally over done almost as if this was a piece of propaganda.

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