ComedyCrime

So You Want to Be a Detective

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

Release Date : 1948-06-26

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Richard L. Bare Productions

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)

Original Name : George O'Hanlon

Gender : Male

Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Art Gilmore

Gender : Male

Character Name : Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Original Name : Lila Leeds

Gender : Female

Character Name : Barroom Thug (uncredited)

Original Name : Kit Guard

Gender : Male

Reviews

talisencrw

@talisencrw

2021-06-23

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.