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Joker's Wild (1984)
Directed by Matthew Mallinson
““Nobody leave the theater. Someone here is a murderer!””
Crime, Drama, Mystery · 12m
Kelly surprises Nancy late one night when he returns unexpectedly to the cold dark stage of an empty theater where they are currently in rehearsals for a stage play, a murder mystery. Kelly and Nancy have a lurid and salacious history as actors and lovers. He's come back to pick up a script. She's there to meet her husband the playwright. They're surprised to discover new props litter the stage; a real dagger, a loaded revolver and a blood-stained playing card, a Joker. As certain events begin to unfold, the reality of this “play-within-a-play” leads to a deadly finale where they find themselves caught up in a web of lies and deceit. And someone may pay the ultimate price in a deadly finale! Joker's Wild pays homage to film-noir, an 'Agatha Christie like' one act, a murder mystery that also has some fun referencing the post war classics. And was a festival favorite seen at various film festivals, broadcast on HBO and others, and won various awards such as a CINE Golden Eagle.
Cast
Doug Ballard
Crew
- Director
- Matthew Mallinson
- Writer
- David Landau
- Director of Photography
- David Landau
- Original Music Composer
- Barry Salmon
- Editor
- Matthew Mallinson, Ron Bochar
- Producer
- Matthew Mallinson
Details
- Release date
- 1984-01-01
- Runtime
- 12m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Mallinson Media Associates, Brooklyn, N.Y., Murder To Go, Inc.