Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Funnier Than "The Paleface"!
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.
- Date of release
- 1949-07-04
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Sidney Lanfield
Casting
- 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
- Emmett Vogan — Psychiatrist
- Mary Jane Saunders — Martha Jane Smith
- Erville Alderson — Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope.
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