Sorrowful Jones

Sorrowful Jones is a man who takes bets. He is known for being tight with money. One day a customer comes to him. The man has no money for his bet. He leaves his daughter as a marker instead. The girl is a small child. The man promises to come back. But he is never seen again. Sorrowful is left alone with the child. His way of living does not suit the job. The free and easy life he leads starts to slip. Meanwhile another trouble comes up. Crooked gangsters in the city come after him. There is a matter of a horse as well. Bob Hope and Lucille Ball take the leads, with William Demarest also in the cast, in Sidney Lanfield’s American film of 1949.