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Sorrowful Jones

1949·88 min

Sorrowful Jones

Directed by Sidney Lanfield

Comedy

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

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Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones

Gladys O'Neill

William Demarest

Regret

Big Steve Holloway

Crew

Edmund L. Hartmann

Screenplay

Melville Shavelson

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Director of Photography

Robert Emmett Dolan

Original Music Composer

Robert L. Welch

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What is Sorrowful Jones about?

Sorrowful Jones (1949) is about a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

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Sidney Lanfield directed Sorrowful Jones (1949).

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