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Sorrowful Jones

Name: Sorrowful Jones
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1949-07-04
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 6.583

★ 6,6 /10 (12 Votes)

1949 EN 88 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

04/07/1949

Votes

Popularity

1.1

Funnier Than "The Paleface"!

Genres

Comedy

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

88 min

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

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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)

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Ethel Bryant

Nurse (uncredited)

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John Butler

Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)

Claire Carleton

Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)

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Douglas Carter

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Bill Cartledge

First Jockey (uncredited)

Maurice Cass

Psychiatrist (uncredited)

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George Chan

Chinese Man (uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Bookie (uncredited)

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Michael Cirillo

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Tony Cirillo

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Charles Cooley

Shorty (uncredited)

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James Cornell

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Betty Corner

Nurse (uncredited)

Edgar Dearing

Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)

Sayre Dearing

Spectator (uncredited)

Jay Eaton

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Sam Finn

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Joe Gray

Gambler (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton

Policeman (uncredited)

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Henry Hope

Motorcyclist (uncredited)

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Jerry Hunter

Newsboy (uncredited)

Selmer Jackson

Doctor (uncredited)

Kenner G. Kemp

Bookmaker (uncredited)

Bob Kortman

Horse Player (uncredited)

Marc Krah

Nick, the Barber (uncredited)

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Pat Lane

Bookie (uncredited)

Orley Lindgren

Bit Part (uncredited)

Louise Lorimer

Nurse-Receptionist (uncredited)

George Magrill

Horse Player (uncredited)

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John Mallon

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Speer Martin

Jockey (uncredited)

John 'Skins' Miller

Head Telephone Man (uncredited)

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Ralph Montgomery

Horse Player (uncredited)

Patsy O'Byrne

Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited)

Ralph Peters

Taxicab Driver (uncredited)

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Dario Piazza

Horse Player (uncredited)

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Sally Rawlinson

Nurse (uncredited)

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Allen Ray

Horse Player (uncredited)

Suzanne Ridgway

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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Eddie Rio

Bookie (uncredited)

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Jack Roberts

Horse Player (uncredited)

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John Shay

Doctor (uncredited)

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Billy Snyder

Bookie (uncredited)

Arthur Space

Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

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Bert Stevens

Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

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Delmar Thomas

Exercise Boy (uncredited)

Sid Tomack

Waiter at Steve's Place (uncredited)

Harry Tyler

Blinky (uncredited)

Annette Warren

Gladys O'Neill (singing voice) (uncredited)

Walter Winchell

Himself (voice) (uncredited)

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William Yip

Bookie (uncredited)

Frank Mills

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James Davies

Original Soundtrack

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Rock-a-bye Baby at Pimlico. Damon Runyon's Little Miss Marker had already been filmed in 1934 as a Shirley Temple starrer, this remake changes the title and brings in the star power of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball, with great results. Story has Hope as sly bookie Sorrowful Jones, who after accepting a five year old girl as a betting marker, gets lumbered with the child when her father is wasted by gangster Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot). Initially a fish out of water with the kid, Sorrowful strikes up a loving relationship with her and aided by his ex-girlfriend, Gladys O'Neill (Ball), fi…

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