So You Want to Be a Detective

So You Want to Be a Detective

So You Want to Be a Detective

6.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

19

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1948

Release Year

11 min

Runtime

Comedy

Crime

Overview

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

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Keywords

detective

narration

private detective

short film

Cast

George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon

Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)

Art Gilmore

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

Lila Leeds

Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Kit Guard

Barroom Thug (uncredited)

Images

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Reviews(1)

8.0avg rating

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talisencrw

August 4, 2016

8

8/10

This short film, an extra from my blu of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' is one of the better Richard Bare-directed 'Joe McDoakes' comedic shorts. Like Leonard Maltin states in his introduction to the 1948 'Warner Night at the Movies' that Warner Bros. attempts to recreate with this (as well as t…

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