So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)

6.8 | Jun 26, 1948 (US) | Comedy, Crime | 00:11

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

Featured Crew

Richard L. Bare

Writer, Director

David Swift

Story

Francis J. Scheid

Sound Designer

William Lava

Original Music Composer

Gordon Hollingshead

Producer

Wesley Anderson

Director of Photography

Everett Sutherland

Editor

Cast

George O'Hanlon

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

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Barroom Thug (uncredited)

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Reviews

talisencrw

8 | Aug 04, 2016

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.