Watch the Hillary Clinton advertisement featuring Jack Nicholson

A campaign advert for Hillary Clinton featuring an unlikely cast of supporters including Batman’s ’the Joker’ and a mass-murderer from the film The Shining has proved an internet hit.

Since its release on Friday, more than 1.2 million people have viewed a film by Hollywood film star Jack Nicholson which splices together scenes from some of the Oscar winner’s most famous films to articulate his reasons for endorsing Clinton.

“And now folks, it’s time for ’who do you trust’. Hubba hubba hubba, money, money, money, who do you trust?”, opens Nicholson in the role of the Joker from the 1989 film Batman, before the film cuts to a scene from the 1980 horror movie The Shining, recasting his mass-murdering character’s unhinged mumblings as a comment on the Bush administration: “Things could be better, Lloyd. Things could be a whole lot better.”

The one and a half minute film then flashes a message advertising Clinton’s plan “to deal with the nearly 47 million American without health care".

In what will be interpreted as a comment on Clinton’s stance on Iraq and her repeated claims to be "ready from day one", Nicholson’s performance as Colonel Nathan Jessep in A Few Good Men is also used.

”Maybe we as officers have a responsibility to this country to see that the men and women charged with its security are trained professionals,” he comments before the film ends, to the tune of ’Glory Glory Hallelujah’, with some words of advice from the same character: “There is nothing on this earth sexier, believe me gentlemen, than a woman you have to salute in the morning.”

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