Comedy
Sorrowful Jones
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.
Top 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
Directed by
Crew
Production
Paramount PicturesReviews
John Chard
7/104/24/2015
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 by gangster Big Steve Holloway (Bruce Cabot). Initially a fish out of water with the kid, Sorrowful strikes up a loving relationship with her and aided by his ex-girlfriend, Gladys O'Neill (Ball), fights to keep the child out of an orphanage. It's not - as some of the posters proclaim - funnier than Paleface (either of them since the sequel is better), in fact it's not close to the funny heigh
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