The Jerk
A rags to riches to rags story.
Director Carl Reiner
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
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Cast
Trinidad Silva
Punk
Catlin Adams
Patty Bernstein
Larry Hankin
Circus Hand (uncredited)
Howard Hesseman
Carnival Worker (uncredited)
Ken Magee
Carnival Rube
Dick O'Neill
Frosty
Maurice Evans
Hobart
Helena Carroll
Hester
Ren Woods
Elvira
Lenny Montana
Con Man
Alfred Dennis
Irving
Mabel King
Mother
William Schallert
Judge M.A. Loring
Domingo Ambriz
Father De Cordoba
Maurice Marsac
French Waiter
David Landsberg
Bank Manager
Brownie McGhee
Blues Singer
Jackie Mason
Harry Hartounian
Gailard Sartain
Guy with Cracked Airplane Seats (uncredited)
Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson
Carl Gottlieb
Iron Balls McGinty
Bill Macy
Stan Fox
Rob Reiner
Truck Driver Picking Up Navin (uncredited)
Bernadette Peters
Marie Kimble Johnson
Sonny Terry
Blues Singer
Frances E. Williams
Grandma Johnson
Fred Lerner
Con Man
Pepe Serna
Punk #1
Richard Foronjy
Con Man
Richard Ward
Father
Dick Anthony Williams
Taj
M. Emmet Walsh
Madman
Gene LeBell
Con Man
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner the Celebrity