Sorrowful Jones

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Sorrowful Jones (1949)

NR 1949-07-04 (US) Comedy 1h 28m

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Funnier Than "The Paleface"!

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.

Sidney Lanfield

Director
Melville Shavelson

Screenplay
Edmund L. Hartmann

Screenplay
Jack Rose

Screenplay
Damon Runyon

Story

Top Billed 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
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A review by John Chard

70%

Written by John Chard on April 24, 2015

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), fig... read the rest.

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