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The Jumping Jack

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A frothy old-fashioned bedroom farce where silly mechanical gimmicks and marital mischief keep things light and brisk.

Overview: Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.

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Tone: whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
identity
class
deception
Places: home
big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	7
Realism	5
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	2
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: E.W. Emo
Starring: Max Hansen, S.Z. Sakall, Lien Deyers, Otto Wallburg, Lotte Werkmeister, Ernst Morgan
Country: Germany

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