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So You Want to Be a Detective

Short Film
1948
11m
Approved
English
Comedy, Crime
User Score: 
6.7
So You Want to Be a Detective' Poster
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
So You Want to Be a Detective Poster

So You Want to Be a Detective

Approved
Short Film
1948
11m
English
Comedy, Crime
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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6.7
IMDB
So You Want to Be a Detective (1948) on IMDb
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George OHanlon
Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlo...
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Lila Leeds
Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Barroom Thug (uncredited)
Directed By: Richard L. Bare
Written By: David Swift (Story), Richard L. Bare

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talisencrw
6 years ago
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 More
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