Georg Jacoby’s Jokeren is a light-hearted entertainment picture set during the carnival in Nice, a romantic comedy with a touch of melodrama. A young artist, fatally injured in a car accident, foolishly entrusts a batch of compromising love letters to Borwick, a crooked and unscrupulous lawyer, instructing him to destroy them. Instead, Borwick proceeds to blackmail the woman who sent the letters, Lady Cecilie Powder, married to the straight-arrow Sir Herbert Powder. Lady Cecilie gets help from her spunky younger sister Gill. In turn, she draws in Peter Carstairs, a debonair adventurer known to all as “the Joker” – the card that trumps all others. When the Joker repeatedly foils Borwick’s schemes, the crooked lawyer ups the ante, trying to incriminate his adversary Carstairs and expanding his demands to include marriage to Gill. But as the characters converge at yet another lavish carnival celebration party, it becomes clear that one card does indeed trump all the others: the Joker!
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Cast
11 people
Henry Edwards
Mr. Carstairs
Known for
Oliver Twist
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Elga Brink
Gill
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Miles Mander
Mr. Borwick
Known for
Murder, My Sweet
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Aage Hertel
Jonny
Known for
Häxan
Renée Héribel
Lady Powder
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Everyone Has Their Chance
The Three Masks
Christian Schrøder
James
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Atlantis
Zigøjnerblod
Philip Bech
Edward
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A Trip to Mars
The Man Without a Future
Ruth Komdrup
Lou Lou
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Sunshine, Summer and Students
Landligger - Idyl - Vandgang
Aage Bendixen
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The Hill Park Mystery
Byens Don Juan
Olga Svendsen
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In the Army
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Gabriel Gabrio
Sir Herbert Powder
Known for
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Georg Jacoby Director · Jens Locher Writer Noël Scott Author
First release March 10, 1928 · Produced in Denmark, Germany · Production Goron Film, Nordisk Film Kompagni
Production
Deutsch-Nordische Film-Union GmbH
Production
Goron Film
Production
Nordisk Film Kompagni
Production
Denmark · Germany
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Original title
Jokeren
Original language
Danish
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Denmark · March 10, 1928
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No release date listed for United States.
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