So You Want to Be a Detective

Year: 1948

Runtime: 11 mins

Language: English

Director: Richard L. Bare

CrimeComedy

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

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