Jack of all Trades

Jack of all Trades

1965 · 100 min

A criminal group intends to murder a girl, but a young man saves her. The girl is the daughter of a wealthy man, and after his wife's death, the father married a widow. The girl's stepmother, a young woman, plotted the girl's murder to inherit her husband's wealth herself. With the young man's presence in the girl's life, the stepmother's plan becomes impossible to execute until the family's father is killed in an accident, and the woman stages the scene to make it appear that the young man committed the murder. The police, based on the evidence, pursue the young man and his friend. The girl decides to help the young man. Eventually, it turns out that the killer is the victim's brother, whom everyone thought had died. With the discovery of the truth, the young man's innocence is proven, and he begins a life together with the girl.

Directed by Mohammad Reza Fazeli · Written by Ahmad Shamlou

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