Trapeze

Trapeze is a 1956 circus film directed by Carol Reed and starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis and Gina Lollobrigida, making her debut in American films. (and Johnny Puleo.)

Plot:
A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.

Filmed at the beautiful Cirque d'hiver, permanent circus building in Paris.

Johnny Puleo to the right.

Here it is in all its glory.