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Status
Released
Release
1949
Runtime
1h 28m
"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.
65 Cast Members
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)
Ethel Bryant
Nurse (uncredited)
John Butler
Jack, Bettor on Green Demon (uncredited)
Claire Carleton
Agnes 'Happy Hips' Noonan (uncredited)
Douglas Carter
Horse Player (uncredited)
Bill Cartledge
First Jockey (uncredited)
Maurice Cass
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
George Chan
Chinese Man (uncredited)
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
Bookie (uncredited)
