So You Want to Be a Detective backdrop
So You Want to Be a Detective

So You Want to Be a Detective

6.8 / 1019480h 11m

Synopsis

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

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Status: Released

Director: Richard L. Bare

Website:

Main Cast

George O'Hanlon

George O'Hanlon

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

Art Gilmore

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

Lila Leeds

Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Kit Guard

Barroom Thug (uncredited)

User Reviews

talisencrw

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 the cartoon 'Hot Cross Bunny'), it was a clever homage/satire of both Bogart's detective work in 'The Maltese Falcon' and the first-person point-of-view camera work prevalent in Robert Montgomery's 'Lady in the Lake' from the previous year.