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So You Want to Be a Detective

1948 PG-13 11m
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So You Want to Be a Detective
So You Want to Be a Detective
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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.

Director Richard L. Bare
Writers
Richard L. BareDavid Swift
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George O'HanlonArt GilmoreLila Leeds
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talisencrw 5 Aug 2016
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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...

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