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So You Want to Be a Detective

TMDb6.8IMDbView on IMDb ↗1948-06-26· 11 min
ComedyCrime

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

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