The Joker is Wild
The Most Electric Performance That Ever Shocked and Fascinated an Audience!
A dark biographical drama about a Prohibition-era entertainer whose promising career is brutally derailed by mob violence, steeped in period melancholy and the tragedy of lost potential.
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Essence
Ensemble
Frank Sinatra
Joe E. Lewis
Mitzi Gaynor
Martha Stewart
Jeanne Crain
Letty Page
Eddie Albert
Austin Mack
Beverly Garland
Cassie Mack
Jackie Coogan
Swifty Morgan
Barry Kelley
Hugh McCarthy
Ted de Corsia
Georgie Parker
Leonard Graves
Tim Coogan
Valerie Allen
Chorine
Hank Henry
Burlesque Comedian
Sophie Tucker
Sophie Tucker (uncredited)
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