Trapeze Page #6

Synopsis: Mike Ribble was once a great trapeze artist - and the only the sixth to have completed a triple somersault - before his accident. Tino joins the circus, and manages to convince Mike to teach him the 'triple'. Meanwhile Lola, a tumbler, wants to get in on the act.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Carol Reed
Production: Hill-Hecht-Lancaster Productions
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
60%
APPROVED
Year:
1956
105 min
173 Views


in front of all those people.

It's a good idea to try it out on a fast spin.

If it'll stand that, it'll stand anything.

Take a deep breath. Give it all you got.

- The costume will split!

- Let me worry about the costume.

- Sure wouldn't worry about that costume.

- My style is OK?

On a rope there's nothing I can teach you.

I want to learn all I can.

Maybe we should... talk about it.

Give me time to get out of this.

- Asleep?

- Shh.

- Paul, a small bottle of brandy.

- Brandy?

And a couple of cups.

- 400 francs.

- Shh. I'll pay you tomorrow.

- Maybe I'm dead tomorrow.

- I'll put the money in your coffin.

I was dreaming I had a box

at the Folies Bergre.

There were all these beautiful girls,

and one kept looking at me.

A little blonde with blue eyes? Take no

notice. I know her. She's not sympathetic.

Go on back to sleep

and dream about the triple.

- Where you going?

- Around.

- Wait, I'll come with you.

- Stay there. You need rest.

- I feel great.

- I know how you feel better than you do.

I'll see you around.

Go back to sleep.

Your little blonde has a friend waiting.

She'll probably look like Mike.

Come in.

Whatever kept you?

I hear the boy was very good today.

Good? He was great.

He missed the triple by an inch.

You should congratulate him.

You'll find him in the menagerie.

Let's drink to Ribble and Orsini,

the first pure act in years.

Let's hope the public like it.

They never asked for purity before.

- It's so long since they saw it, they forgot.

- No, Mike. Things have changed.

Why stick to a two act? People want light,

sparkle, something pleasing to the eye.

A bit of feminine beauty like Lola here.

Think it over, Mike,

while I go congratulate your boy.

I have great hopes for this act.

I watched you work.

Bouglione's wrong. Your way is right.

- He knows box office.

- That's all he knows.

That's all he cares.

The work itself he thinks nothing of.

- That bothers you?

- Why not? He throws out my partners.

- They are not bad workers.

- They're good.

All right. But they are not

in the same class as you.

- I've got a great flier.

- Always the flier gets credit.

What he does makes a flash.

Your partner is nothing without you.

My partners,

they can find work without me.

But your Tino, he had to come

halfway round the world to find you.

Does Bouglione appreciate it?

- He sure appreciates you.

- Oh, me.

He wants me to be like a bit

of window-dressing in some other act.

You don't like that?

All my life I wanted

to get better and better.

To be the best of all.

Like you.

Our act's pretty dangerous.

I don't care how dangerous,

so long as I am with the best.

With you, for example.

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James R. Webb

James R. Webb (October 4, 1909 – September 27, 1974) was an American writer. He won an Academy Award in 1963 for How the West Was Won.Webb was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Stanford University in 1930. During the 1930s he worked both as a screenwriter and a fiction writer for a number of national magazines, including Collier's Weekly, Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post. Webb was commissioned an army officer in June 1942 and became a personal aide to General Lloyd R. Fredendall who was commander of the II Corps (United States). Webb accompanied Fredendall to England in October 1942 and participated in the invasion of North Africa in November 1942 when the Second Corps captured the city of Oran. The Second Corps then attacked eastward into Tunisia. In February 1943 the German army launched a counterattack at Kasserine Pass which repulsed the Second Corps and nearly broke through the Allied lines. The Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower relieved Fredendall of command in March 1943 and sent him back to the United States where he became deputy commander of the Second United States Army at Memphis, Tennessee. Webb returned to the United States with Fredendall and later served in the European Theater. Webb left the Army after the war and returned to Hollywood, California, where he continued his work as a screenwriter. He died on September 27, 1974, and was buried in Los Angeles National Cemetery. more…

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