Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones (1949)

Funnier Than "The Paleface"!

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 1949-07-04
  • User Rating: 6.1/10 from 8 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 28min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Sidney Lanfield
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From 8 Ratings

Summary

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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  • Bob Hope

    as Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones

  • Lucille Ball

    as Gladys O'Neill

  • William Demarest

    as Regret

  • Bruce Cabot

    as Big Steve Holloway

  • Thomas Gomez

    as Reardon

  • Tom Pedi

    as Once Over Sam

  • Paul Lees

    as Orville Smith

  • Houseley Stevenson

    as Doc Chesley

  • Ben Welden

    as Big Steve's Bodyguard

  • Emmett Vogan

    as Psychiatrist

  • Mary Jane Saunders

    as Martha Jane Smith

  • Erville Alderson

    as Happy the Mortician (uncredited)

  • Ethel Bryant

    as Nurse (uncredited)

  • John Butler

    as Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)

  • Claire Carleton

    as Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)

  • Douglas Carter

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Bill Cartledge

    as First Jockey (uncredited)

  • Maurice Cass

    as Psychiatrist (uncredited)

  • George Chan

    as Chinese Man (uncredited)

  • Noble 'Kid' Chissell

    as Bookie (uncredited)

  • Michael Cirillo

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Tony Cirillo

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Charles Cooley

    as Shorty (uncredited)

  • James Cornell

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Betty Corner

    as Nurse (uncredited)

  • Edgar Dearing

    as Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)

  • Sayre Dearing

    as Spectator (uncredited)

  • Jay Eaton

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Sam Finn

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Joe Gray

    as Gambler (uncredited)

  • Chuck Hamilton

    as Policeman (uncredited)

  • Henry Hope

    as Motorcyclist (uncredited)

  • Jerry Hunter

    as Newsboy (uncredited)

  • Selmer Jackson

    as Doctor (uncredited)

  • Kenner G. Kemp

    as Bookmaker (uncredited)

  • Bob Kortman

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Marc Krah

    as Nick, the Barber (uncredited)

  • Pat Lane

    as Bookie (uncredited)

  • Orley Lindgren

    as Bit Part (uncredited)

  • Louise Lorimer

    as Nurse-Receptionist (uncredited)

  • George Magrill

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • John Mallon

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Speer Martin

    as Jockey (uncredited)

  • John "Skins" Miller

    as Head Telephone Man (uncredited)

  • Ralph Montgomery

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Patsy O'Byrne

    as Mrs. Oliver Sims (uncredited)

  • Ralph Peters

    as Taxicab Driver (uncredited)

  • Dario Piazza

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Sally Rawlinson

    as Nurse (uncredited)

  • Allen Ray

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • Suzanne Ridgway

    as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

  • Eddie Rio

    as Bookie (uncredited)

  • Jack Roberts

    as Horse Player (uncredited)

  • John Shay

    as Doctor (uncredited)

  • Billy Snyder

    as Bookie (uncredited)

  • Arthur Space

    as Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)

  • Bert Stevens

    as Nightclub Patron (uncredited)

  • Delmar Thomas

    as Exercise Boy (uncredited)

  • Sid Tomack

    as Waiter at Steve's Place (uncredited)

  • Harry Tyler

    as Blinky (uncredited)

  • Annette Warren

    as Gladys O'Neill (singing voice) (uncredited)

  • Walter Winchell

    as Himself (voice) (uncredited)

  • William Yip

    as Bookie (uncredited)

  • Frank Mills

    as

  • James Davies

    as
Directing Sidney Lanfield Director
Writing Damon Runyon Story
Writing Edmund L. Hartmann Screenplay
Writing Melville Shavelson Screenplay
Writing Jack Rose Screenplay
Camera Daniel L. Fapp Director of Photography
Art Hans Dreier Art Direction
Art Albert Nozaki Art Direction
Crew Gordon Jennings Special Effects
Art Sam Comer Set Decoration
Art Bertram C. Granger Set Decoration
Sound Robert Emmett Dolan Original Music Composer
Editing Arthur P. Schmidt Editor
Costume & Make-Up Mary Kay Dodson Costume Design
Costume & Make-Up Wally Westmore Makeup Supervisor
Directing Oscar Rudolph Assistant Director
Sound Jay Livingston Songs
Sound Ray Evans Songs
Sound Harold Lewis Sound Recordist
Sound John Cope Sound Recordist
Production Robert L. Welch Producer

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