Sorrowful Jones (1949)

• Year: 1949
• Released: 04 Jul 1949
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041902/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sorrowful_jones
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: Not Rated
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Runtime: 88 min
• Writer: Melville Shavelson, Edmund L. Hartmann, Jack Rose
• Director: Sidney Lanfield
• Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest
• Keywords: gangsters,

	6.9/10
	72% – Critics
	72% – Audience

Sorrowful Jones Storyline

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn’t return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.—Erica Schulman

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Sorrowful Jones Movie Reviews

Sometimes very funny

This is a remake of 1934’s Little Miss Marker, a Shirley Temple movie. Sorrowful Jones, the cheap bookie, is played to a tee by Bob Hope, who suddenly has a little girl to look after when her father leaves her in his care as a bet marker, and doesn’t come back. But the little girl doesn’t mix well with his lifestyle, and provides him with some close shaves involving some errant gangsters, and a bout of horse napping. A predictable and sappy ending, but still a sweet little movie, with some hilarious one liners by Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. (Make sure you’re not eating when you watch this, because they shoot them out so suddenly that you’re likely to end up wearing your lunch.) Overall? 8 out of 10.

Very Good, Underrated Re-Make

This movie, a re-make of Shirley Temple’s “Little Miss Marker” gets little respect from the critics. As usual, I disagree with them: this is fun movie and one you should enjoy if you like Temple and laugh at Bob Hope’s jokes.

I didn’t always think Hope was funny but this movie had a lot of laughs, a great story and a cute kid. It isn’t as hokey or dated as most of Hope’s films and some of his lines in here are downright clever.

Mary Jane Saunders does a nice imitation of Temple-Margaret O’Brien, a combination of those two child stars. You also get Lucille Ball in here, although she’s just okay, nothing hilarious. She does get some good wise-cracks in, however.

This is a solid, underrated comedy. I’m sorry to see I am only the second person to review this film on IMDb. A lot of people are missing out on a funny movie.

Where there’s Hope, you’re bound to have a Ball!

In their first of four big screen appearances (not to mention countess on TV), Bob Hope and Lucille Ball go into Damon Runyeon territory and are almost upstaged by a little girl. Ball had gone down Runyeon territory before with “The Big Street” and Hope would follow this up with “The Lemon Drop Kid”. This remake of “Little Miss Marker” is almost better thanks to the less overly sweet performance of Mary Jane Saunders, compared to Shirley Temple’s in the 1934 version. She is simply just a little girl, not too coy or perky, and totally natural. As the orphaned young girl (left with Hope by her soon-to-be murdered father), Saunders brings heart into the film, giving Hope more humanity as a tragic accident leaves her life in the balance. Ball, as a nightclub singer who obviously has motherly instincts, is given her share of wisecracks along with Hope, and together they are a fun team.

Bruce Cabot and Tom Pedi are a believable team of mobsters, Pedi in particularly funny as a slightly older variation of Leo Gorcey. The future “Uncle Charlie” of “My Three Sons”, William Demarest, is very funny as Hope’s crotchety partner at the bookie joint he runs. There are many light-hearted moments between Saunders, Hope and Ball, and the scene where Hope tries to get a race horse put under Saunders’ name into the hospital, is both funny and touching. The mix of sentiment and comedy makes this remake most worth watching, not just for Lucy and Bob fans, but everybody who simply wants to see a good story where seemingly not so noble characters prove that they actually have a heart, gangsters who seem dumb (but actually aren’t as dumb as they seem) and a little girl who can steal your heart without giving you diabetes in the process. This was remade two more times after this in OK versions that aren’t as classic as this and the original, somewhat lacking the heart, particularly the one that this version displays.