Film

So You Want to Be a Detective

6.8194811mComedy Crime

Director: Richard L. Bare
Year: 1948

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

Top cast

George O'Hanlon

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

Art Gilmore

Narrator (voice)

Lila Leeds

Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)

Kit Guard

Barroom Thug (uncredited)

Directed by

Richard L. Bare

Written by

Richard L. Bare, David Swift

Produced by

Gordon Hollingshead