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
Gene LeBell
Con Man
David Landsberg
Bank Manager
Bernadette Peters
Marie Kimble Johnson
Mabel King
Mother
Larry Hankin
Circus Hand (uncredited)
Rob Reiner
Truck Driver Picking Up Navin (uncredited)
Alfred Dennis
Irving
Richard Ward
Father
Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner the Celebrity
William Schallert
Judge M.A. Loring
Frances E. Williams
Grandma Johnson
Ken Magee
Carnival Rube
Fred Lerner
Con Man
Pepe Serna
Punk #1
Helena Carroll
Hester
Jackie Mason
Harry Hartounian
Lenny Montana
Con Man
Catlin Adams
Patty Bernstein
M. Emmet Walsh
Madman
Maurice Evans
Hobart
Howard Hesseman
Carnival Worker (uncredited)
Richard Foronjy
Con Man
Steve Martin
Navin R. Johnson
Dick Anthony Williams
Taj
Dick O'Neill
Frosty
Brownie McGhee
Blues Singer
Sonny Terry
Blues Singer
Gailard Sartain
Guy with Cracked Airplane Seats (uncredited)
Trinidad Silva
Punk
Carl Gottlieb
Iron Balls McGinty
Bill Macy
Stan Fox
Domingo Ambriz
Father De Cordoba
Maurice Marsac
French Waiter
Ren Woods
Elvira