So You Want to Be a Detective

1948 | 11 minutes | 6.8 ★ (18)

So You Want to Be a Detective
  • Overview

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

  • Release Date

    26 June 1948

  • DirectingRichard L. Bare
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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23 June 2021

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.

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