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Released
1978 · FILM

The Great Wallendas

Directed by
Runtime
98 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

A drama centered on the legendary circus family, chronicling the spectacular yet tragic course of their careers and their distinctive aerial act featuring a seven-member pyramid. The film highlights the 1962 accident during this act, which resulted in the deaths of two members of the troupe and left another permanently paralyzed.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Eric AlbertsonShot by Bob BailinScored by Bill Soden

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