Sorrowful Jones (1949)

6.5/10 88 min Comedy

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.

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

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)

Claire Carleton

Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)

Maurice Cass

Psychiatrist (uncredited)

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Bookie (uncredited)

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