

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.
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Cast

Bob Hope
Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones

Lucille Ball
Gladys O'Neill

William Demarest
Regret

Bruce Cabot
Big Steve Holloway

Thomas Gomez
Reardon

Tom Pedi
Once Over Sam
Paul Lees
Orville Smith

Houseley Stevenson
Doc Chesley

Ben Welden
Big Steve's Bodyguard

Emmett Vogan
Psychiatrist

Mary Jane Saunders
Martha Jane Smith

Erville Alderson
Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
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