- Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida, Katy Jurado, Thomas Gomez
- Directors: Carol Reed
- Writers: Ben Hecht, James R. Webb, Liam O'Brien, Max Catto, Wolf Mankowitz
- Producers: Burt Lancaster, Harold Hecht
- Format: PAL
- Language English, Italian
- Subtitles: Dutch, Greek
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.77:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: U
- Studio: MGM
- DVD Release Date: 22 Sep 2003
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000AQVLI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 51,275 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It is over 40 years since I first saw this film but time has not diminished its appeal. It has a taut and convincing storyline with good acting and a fine script. The principal delight are the trapeze scenes which are magnificently performed. The ambition of the young flyer (Tony Curtis) is to learn from the old cynical circus hand Burt Lancaster how to execute one of the circus's great feats namely the triple somersault mid air. The main thrust of the storyline covers their growing joint realisation that they can achieve this together. The love interest adds a relevant and pointed aspect to the psychological interaction of the two male leads. Buy this film. It is a classic.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Burt Lancaster ! What more is there to say ! A legend !
Forty four years of films with Birdman from Alcatraz topping them all.
These films will be watched for generations to come.
Worthy of a place in my DVD collection any time.
Forty four years of films with Birdman from Alcatraz topping them all.
These films will be watched for generations to come.
Worthy of a place in my DVD collection any time.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Burt Lancaster traded on his former life as a trapeze artist for this melodrama, easily one of the most enjoyable of circus movies. He plays a famed flyer who is coaxed back after an accident that has left him with a limp by Tony Curtis, who wants to learn the near impossible triple somersault, until Gina Lollabrigida muscles in on their act and sets them against each other. Lancaster is on great form, either in the air or pinching his unwanted protégée's drink, Curtis (doubled in the acrobatic scenes by Lancaster's former circus partner Nick Cravat) is amiably enthusiastic, and La Lollabrigida is about as subtle as a flying sledgehammer, delivering lines like "I wuz alwayz strong in da legs" for considerably more than they're worth.
With a colourful supporting cast, including snake-hater Sid James trying to sell a used python (he apparently took the part to pay off another gambling debt), and a terrific array of behind-the-scenes talent (director Carol Reed, cinematographer Robert Krasker, composer Malcolm Arnold), Trapeze is a lavishly produced audience picture with a few inspired moments in the air. The first performance is a terrific piece of direction and editing and looks terrific in widescreen. This is a film that makes such full use of the Scope ratio that it's always been marred by panning-and-scanning on TV, very consciously designed for the CinemaScope screen that at the time was almost as big a draw as the stars at the box-office, so it's good to see the original ratio preserved on this DVD even if the print is a tad grainy in places.
With a colourful supporting cast, including snake-hater Sid James trying to sell a used python (he apparently took the part to pay off another gambling debt), and a terrific array of behind-the-scenes talent (director Carol Reed, cinematographer Robert Krasker, composer Malcolm Arnold), Trapeze is a lavishly produced audience picture with a few inspired moments in the air. The first performance is a terrific piece of direction and editing and looks terrific in widescreen. This is a film that makes such full use of the Scope ratio that it's always been marred by panning-and-scanning on TV, very consciously designed for the CinemaScope screen that at the time was almost as big a draw as the stars at the box-office, so it's good to see the original ratio preserved on this DVD even if the print is a tad grainy in places.
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trapeze.old film
I remember this film from when I was younger and it was brilliant, so I decided to buy it , I havent watched it yet, but I am sure it will be perfect. thanks alot for a good buy. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mrs. E. J. Seddon
Trapeze
Ambitious highflier, played by Tony Curtis, arrives at the circus in Paris looking for a once famous trapeze artist, played by Bert Lancaster, whose career was ruined by a bad fall... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2009 by Mrs. A. Jude
if mortals could fly and look like angels too like here
YOU SEE THIS AND YOU WISH YOU HAD WINGS AND COULD FLY-
burt lancaster was a maverick of his generation and was a trapeze artist which was his first love and he indulges... Read more
burt lancaster was a maverick of his generation and was a trapeze artist which was his first love and he indulges... Read more
Published on 8 Jan 2009 by usman
And many thanks to the acrobats....
The beginning of the movie is a bit creaky and a bit hokey, but the director keeps you amused by moving Miss Lollobrigeda around the screen while he sets things up. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2005 by Chris Ward
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