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Sorrowful Jones is a New York bookie who hides his operation behind a trap door in a Broadway barber shop. He suffers from a financial setback when a horse named Dreamy Joe, owned by gangster Big Steve Holloway, unexpectedly wins a race.
A remake of Little Miss Marker, this film stars Bob Hope as a cheap bookie who gets stuck with a young girl as a bet. He must deal with gangsters, horse-thieving and his sidekick William Demarest in this Damon Runyon-inspired comedy.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Sidney Lanfield
- 1949-07-04
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. Sorrowful...
- 88 min
- 371.2K
- DK Classics III
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Sorrowful Jones (1949) (also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones) was the first of four films that paired Lucille Ball and Bob Hope, who would go on to star together in Fancy Pants (1950), The Facts of Life (1960) and Critic's Choice (1963).
- Sidney Lanfield, Oscar Rudolph
- Bob Hope
Sorrowful Jones is a 1949 film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. It is also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones. Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker for a bet.
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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.
