House of Cards (1947) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1947 · 16 mins

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Directed by

Joseph Vogel

Starring

Crane Whitley, Gail Roberts, Harriette Ann Gray

In a wordless film, a disheveled man awakens in a boarding house and peers out to see children playing and a well‑dressed stranger reading a newspaper on a street chair, the headline reporting a child's murder. Haunted by fear, he wanders the city, startled whenever someone looks at him. A woman offers him a view through a public telescope; he continues onward, climbing a hill where fencers and a jester appear, leaving his desperate flight ambiguous.