The Stranger Left No Card
The Stranger Left No Card is a 1952 British short film directed by Wendy Toye. The film won the Best Fiction award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, where it was described as "a masterpiece" by Jean Cocteau. It marked the film debut of actor Alan Badel.
Plot
Alan Badel plays the stranger, who arrives in a small town, costumed as a flamboyant itinerant magician with a folding bag of tricks. After a week in town, where the outrageous behaviour of 'Napoleon' soon gives him a reputation for harmless, flamboyant buffoonery, he visits a businessman. The businessman is known to keep regular hours and the stranger bedevils him with irritating magic tricks. The last of these tricks leaves the man handcuffed in his office.
Cast
More details
author | Sidney Carroll |
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director | Wendy Toye |
editor | Jean Barker |
keywords | crooked businessman frame handcuff magic trick small town speak |
musicBy | Muir Mathieson |
producer | George K. Arthur |
productionCompany | Meteor Films |
publisher | British Lion Film Corporation |
theme | short |