So You Want to Be a Detective

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

Cast

George O'Hanlon

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

Art Gilmore

as Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

as Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

as Barroom Thug (uncredited)

Reviews

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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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