So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
0h 11m | PG-13
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Director: Richard L. Bare
Studio: Richard L. Bare Productions
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Video: 720p
Cast
George O'Hanlon
as Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)
Art Gilmore
as Narrator (voice)
Lila Leeds
as Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
Kit Guard
as Barroom Thug (uncredited)
Reviews
This short film, an extra from my blu of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' is one of the better Richard Bare-directed 'Joe McDoakes' comedic shorts. Like Leonard Maltin states in his introduction to the 1948 'Warner Night at the Movies' that Warner Bros. attempts to recreate with this (as well as the cartoon 'Hot Cross Bunny'), it was a clever homage/satire of both Bogart's detective work in 'The Maltese Falcon' and the first-person point-of-view camera work prevalent in Robert Montgomery's 'Lady in the Lake' from the previous year.