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Man on a Tightrope

Lux Radio Theatre · December 7, 1953 · 47 min · 7,525 words

The transcript of “Man on a Tightrope”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 7, 1953. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The leader of this company, the makers of Luck's pilot soap, brings you the Luck's radio theater, starring Edward G. Robinson and Terry Moore in Man on a Tycho. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Irving Covey.

We're doing some holidays with ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we bring you the thrilling drama of a man who took a desperate step stand against tyranny and risked his life in a fantastic escape attempt from behind the iron curtain.

It's man on the tightrope, 20th century fox's suspenseful story of a group of daring circus performers. And as the owner of a circus, we have that excellent actor, Edward G. Robinson, co-starring with Terry Moore as his impetuous and romantic daughter, starring Edward G. Robinson as Carol Schurnick and Terry Moore as Theresa.

Behind the iron curtain, tied in the stranglehold of communism, is the once proud country of of Tecos Lavocchio. In the city of Pilson, the secret police have brought a man in for questioning. Oh, you are Carl Cernix. You're the owner of a circus, correct? Now on the road near the town of Ellary? Oh, I'm not the owner, sir. No, not the owner. It bears your name, the Cernix

Circus. I used to own a sir, and my father was for me. What happened? In 1948, when the people's democratic republic won the victory over fascist imperialism my circus was nationalized like everything else I was permitted to remain as the manager you have various members of your family in this circus yes sir my wife my

daughter cousins your second wife yes sir my first wife died she was the mother of my daughter to raise her your private meetings late at night meetings or of course that's the way with all families and you're the manager but you also perform yes sir I perform on the tightrope my report says you're a clown what

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