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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.
Theatrical
Jul 4, 1949
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Paramount Pictures
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Cast
Full credits →B
Bob Hope
Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
L
Lucille Ball
Gladys O'Neill
W
William Demarest
Regret
B
Bruce Cabot
Big Steve Holloway
T
Thomas Gomez
Reardon
T
Tom Pedi
Once Over Sam
P
Paul Lees
Orville Smith
H
Houseley Stevenson
Doc Chesley
B
Ben Welden
Big Steve's Bodyguard
E
Emmett Vogan
Psychiatrist
M
Mary Jane Saunders
Martha Jane Smith
E
Erville Alderson
Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
E
Ethel Bryant
Nurse (uncredited)
J
John Butler
Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)
C
Claire Carleton
Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)
D
Douglas Carter
Horse Player (uncredited)
B
Bill Cartledge
First Jockey (uncredited)
M
Maurice Cass
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
G
George Chan
Chinese Man (uncredited)
N
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Bookie (uncredited)
