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

1947-10-31

Genres

Crime, Fantasy

Runtime

16 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Joseph Vogel

TMDB rating

3.7/10 from 6 votes