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So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)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 |
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Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore. Written by David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
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joe mcdoakes | detective | breaking the fourth wall | dead body in room | gun |Certificate:
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26 June 1948 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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(1926) (uncredited)
Music by Vincent Youmans
Played during the opening credits and at the end
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"I Know That You Know"(1926) (uncredited)
Music by Vincent Youmans
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This wonderful spoof of "The Lady in the Lake", complete with first-person camera and surprise killer must surely rate as one of the most imaginative short subjects Hollywood ever produced. Not only are the players in rollicking form, but Bare's direction, cleverly aping Robert Montgomery's seeing-eye style and even some of his fist-in-the-lens effects, comes across as remarkably smooth and adept.
Narrator Art Gilmore certainly relishes his finest role in the series (for this outing, he's supplied with even funnier lines than either Young or O'Hanlon), and I just loved that sultry blonde suspect, so seductively played by Warners' top siren, Lila Leeds.