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Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
“Funnier Than "The Paleface"!”
Comedy · 1h 28m
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Cast
Bob Hope
Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
Lucille Ball
Gladys O'Neill
William Demarest
Regret
Bruce Cabot
Big Steve Holloway
Thomas Gomez
Reardon
Tom Pedi
Once Over Sam
Paul Lees
Orville Smith
Houseley Stevenson
Doc Chesley
Ben Welden
Big Steve's Bodyguard
Emmett Vogan
Psychiatrist
Mary Jane Saunders
Martha Jane Smith
Erville Alderson
Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
- Screenplay
- Edmund L. Hartmann, Jack Rose, Melville Shavelson
- Director of Photography
- Daniel L. Fapp
- Original Music Composer
- Robert Emmett Dolan
- Editor
- Arthur P. Schmidt
- Producer
- Robert L. Welch
Details
- Release date
- 1949-07-04
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount Pictures