House of Cards (1947)

In this film without sound, a man awakes disheveled in a rooming house. He stares out the window seeing children playing and a well-dressed man sitting on a chair in the middle of the street reading a newspaper and looking up at him. A headline describes the murder of a child. The disheveled man, whose face expresses fear and despair, leaves, going through the city, alarmed when anyone looks at him. A woman invites him to look through a public telescope. He does then keeps going. He climbs a hill. Two fencers appear; so does a jester. Is flight fruitless?

Released Oct. 31, 1947 16 min None+

Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Short

Keywords: mdblist.three-actors, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.experimental-short, imdb.surrealism, imdb.murder, aspectratio.1-37-1

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: No Language, English