Trapeze (1956) ****/*****

Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Winning team. A year later they joined forces again to make the best movie I've ever seen, "The Sweet Smell of Success", but "Trapeze" is a good movie as well. It's a circus tale/love triangle with Lancaster the suffering mentor and Curtis as the young fresh hope, and things get complicated when a circus girl decides to join their act. The movie's dialogue is pretty clever and biting, fitting for a film noir at the time, only this movie is pretty colorful. It works perfectly, and the one thing that would be reason enough to watch it is those 2 actors together. Their chemistry is perfect.

"Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!"

- James Cagney in "Taxi!" (1932)