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The Joker Is Wild

Sep. 26, 1957

02:06:00

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Overview:

Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the employ of Chicago mob boss Georgie Parker.

Director: Charles Vidor

Writer: Oscar Saul, Art Cohn

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor, Phyllis Douglas, Jackie Coogan, ...

Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical

Description

In 1929 Joe E. Lewis is a successful night-club singer in Chicago while working for the Mob during the Prohibition era. His decision to work elsewhere displeases his mob employer who has his thugs assault him by slashing his face and throat, preventing him from continuing his career as a singer.

After many years he eventually recovers and turns his acerbic and witty sense of humor into an act when given a break as a stand-up comedian from singer Sophie Tucker (playing herself). Soon, Lewis makes a career for himself as a comic, but heavy drinking and a self-destructive behavior leads him to question what his life has become and how he has hurt the people around him including his wife Martha and his best friend Austin.

Director: Charles Vidor

Writer: Oscar Saul Art Cohn

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor Phyllis Douglas Jackie Coogan Beverly Garland Joanna Lee Frank Sinatra Jeanne Crain Eddie Albert Barry Kelley Ted de Corsia Leonard Graves Valerie Allen

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