Bob Hope

Lucille Ball

William Demarest

Bruce Cabot

Thomas Gomez

Tom Pedi

Paul Lees

Houseley Stevenson

Ben Welden

Emmett Vogan

Mary Jane Saunders

Erville Alderson

Ethel Bryant

John Butler

Claire Carleton

Douglas Carter

Bill Cartledge

Maurice Cass

George Chan

Noble 'Kid' Chissell

Michael Cirillo

Tony Cirillo

Charles Cooley

James Cornell

Betty Corner

Edgar Dearing

Sayre Dearing

Jay Eaton

Sam Finn

Joe Gray

Chuck Hamilton

Henry Hope

Jerry Hunter

Selmer Jackson

Kenner G. Kemp

Bob Kortman

Marc Krah

Pat Lane

Orley Lindgren

Louise Lorimer

George Magrill

John Mallon

Speer Martin

John "Skins" Miller

Ralph Montgomery

Patsy O'Byrne

Ralph Peters

Dario Piazza

Sally Rawlinson

Allen Ray

Suzanne Ridgway

Eddie Rio

Jack Roberts

John Shay

Billy Snyder

Arthur Space

Bert Stevens

Delmar Thomas

Sid Tomack

Harry Tyler

Annette Warren

Walter Winchell

William Yip

Frank Mills

James Davies

Sidney Lanfield

Damon Runyon

Edmund L. Hartmann

Melville Shavelson

Jack Rose

Daniel L. Fapp

Hans Dreier

Albert Nozaki

Gordon Jennings

Sam Comer

Bertram C. Granger

Robert Emmett Dolan

Arthur P. Schmidt

Mary Kay Dodson

Wally Westmore

Oscar Rudolph

Jay Livingston

Ray Evans

Harold Lewis

John Cope

Robert L. Welch

Comedy

Sorrowful Jones

Paramount Pictures

United States of America

English

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 heights achieved by Hope's next Runyon adapted picture, The Lemon Drop Kid. However, Sorrowful Jones is funny, Hope gets to deliver some absolute corking lines that are guaranteed to at the least put a big grin on your face, but there's a semi-seriousness to it all which thankfully works a treat alongside the quips and wonderfully strange situations that Jones finds himself in. With a weighty support cast that also features William Demarest and Thomas Gomez helping things along, and young Mary Jane Saunders adorable beyond compare, this is a little cracker of a picture to brighten your day. 7/10

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