Sorrowful Jones

“Funnier Than "The Paleface"!”

6.2(9)19491h 28m

Comedy

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.

Director

Sidney Lanfield

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

Emmett Vogan

Psychiatrist

Mary Jane Saunders

Martha Jane Smith

Erville Alderson

Happy the Mortician (uncredited)

Reviews

1 review

John Chard

11y ago

7.0

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...