The Joker Is Wild (1957)
The Most Electric Performance That Ever Shocked and Fascinated an Audience!
126 min
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
- Release date
- September 26, 1957
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Walter Scharf
- Budget
- $2,400,000
- Box office
- $3,000,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Frank Sinatra as Joe E. Lewis
- Mitzi Gaynor as Martha Stewart
- Jeanne Crain as Letty Page
- Eddie Albert as Austin Mack
- Beverly Garland as Cassie Mack
- Jackie Coogan as Swifty Morgan
- Barry Kelley as Captain Hugh McCarthy
- Ted de Corsia as Georgie Parker
- Leonard Graves as Tim Coogan
- Valerie Allen as Flora - Chorine
- Hank Henry as Burlesque Comedian
- Sophie Tucker as Sophie Tucker (uncredited)
- Eric Alden as Doorman at Copacabana (uncredited)
- Bill Baldwin as Radio Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
- Bobby Barber as Waiter (uncredited)
- Don Beddoe as Heckler at Copacabana (uncredited)
- Russ Bender as Man in Hotel Suite (uncredited)
- John Benson as Hood (uncredited)
- Billie Bird as Ticket Seller / Cashier (uncredited)
- Wally Brown as Las Vegas Heckler (uncredited)
- Paul Bryar as Heckler (uncredited)
- Benny Burt as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)
- Fred Catania as Bouncer at Silver Door (uncredited)
- Jimmy Cross as Jack (uncredited)
Crew
- Charles Vidor · Director
- Oscar Saul · Writer
- Art Cohn · Writer
- Samuel J. Briskin · Producer
- Walter Scharf · Composer
- Daniel L. Fapp · Cinematographer
- Everett Douglas · Editor