So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
06/26/1948 (US) • 11m
Overview
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Top Billed Cast
Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)
Narrator (voice)
Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
Barroom Thug (uncredited)
Part of the So You Want... Collection
Includes So You Want to Be a Detective, So You Want to Be Pretty, So You Want to Hold Your Wife
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