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Burt Lancaster (as Mike Ribble), Tony Curtis (as Tino Orsini) and Gina Lollobrigida (as Lola) form a love triangle under the big top. Mr. Lancaster is the older trapeze artist, who continues to fly high, despite suffering from a chronic injury sustained performing the film's famed "triple somersault". Mr. Curtis is Lancaster's brash young protégée; of course, he wants to perform the dangerous "triple somersault". When Ms. Lollobrigida arrives on the circus scene, things understandably heat up for the tightly costumed trio. "Trapeze" is too cliché-ridden to take very seriously. Still, director Carol Reed and cinematographer Robert Krasker create some lovely, colorful, and atmospheric circus scenes. And the performers, particularly Lollobrigida, are in fine form.
****** Trapeze (5/30/56) Carol Reed ~ Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida
score 6/10
wes-connors 11 May 2008
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