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So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)

NA11 minComedy, Crime

6.8 / 10

18 votes

Budget: NARevenue: NA

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

Directed by Richard L. Bare

Written by Richard L. Bare

George O'Hanlon

Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Barroom Thug (uncredited)