So You Want to Be a Detective
Genres
Overview
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
11 min
Release Date
1948-06-26
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
18
Vote Average
6.8
George O'Hanlon
Joe McDoakes (a.k.a. Phillip Snarlow)
Art Gilmore
Narrator (voice)
Lila Leeds
Veronica Vacuum (uncredited)
Kit Guard
Barroom Thug (uncredited)
6.0
Reducing Creme
Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.
1934-05-19 | en
6.8
Tuesday From 8 to 6
Névine, a secondary school monitor, is fully committed to her somewhat thankless day job, dealing with teachers, administration and students. Logan, a pupil she is found of insists on getting a cap back from lost and found. She has no idea of the consequences of her gesture.
2019-05-21 | fr
0.0
Paper Jam
Two deadbeat photocopier technicians discuss their recently deceased boss, who has been found dead the morning of. The conversation turns sour and some sinister and bizarre truths are revealed.
2022-04-28 | en
7.6
Out of the Past
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
1947-11-25 | en
7.7
Annie Hall
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
1977-04-19 | en
0.0
The Nightwatchman
A nightwatchman who works at a pesticide plant manipulates chemicals (of which he treats a strange garden of marrow-like vines in his apartment) , causing evolution to accelerate, in this short illustrating the harmful effects of human interference with nature.
1993-01-01 | xx
4.0
The Marvelous Misadventures of the Stone Lady
Tired of being a banal architectural ornamental, a sculpture runs from the Louvre to confront real life on the streets of Paris.
2019-05-19 | fr
0.0
Pickled Puss
The cat and mouse are in their usual game of chase-and-pursue until the mouse hides in a pickled-herring barrel. The cat gets intoxicated from inhaling the fumes and immediately becomes the mouse's newest best friend. He defends the mouse from a mean alley cat, and the mouse invites him to come home with him. There, the mouse takes care of him and sobers him up, and the cat immediately begins to chase him again. He reaches the barrel again and regains his newest best friend. Charlie Chaplin deserves an (uncredited) story listing.
1948-09-02 | en
0.0
Once Upon a Time in the Bay
When two LGBTQ+ Indigenous friends desperately search for fellow gay people in a straight-ass NZ beach town, they find that the true pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is PRIDE.
2022-10-19 | en
0.0
Radio Dough
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
1934-02-05 | en
4.8
Ninja Fireball in Edo
A short story about a young ninja.
1935-11-09 | ja
2.0
Bombacı
1988-04-07 | tr
2.7
Gırgır Ali
The sick old uncle wants to leave his inheritance to Girgir Ali, but Ali refuses. Meanwhile, an old friend accused of murder asks for help from Ali.
1982-04-01 | tr
10.0
Just One of Those Days
Sometimes it's just one of those days.
| en
6.0
Heavenly Gate
Meet Bill; a lumpy dunce who has slipped on fish sticks and killed himself. At the customer service desk of the pearly gates, he is given the chance to relive one last memory. But if he dies, he'll end up in Limbo. Will Bill survive his past?
2016-04-10 | en
6.8
Goodnight, My Love
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.
1972-10-18 | en
0.0
Two for the Money
Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years.
1972-02-26 | en
7.1
Person to Person
Waking up the morning after hosting a party, a man discovers a stranger passed out on his floor. He spends the rest of the day trying to convince her to leave.
2014-01-18 | en
0.0
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
A poor misunderstood wolf tells the real story of what happened
2008-01-01 | ru
0.0
Saturday Night Slice V
Movie night unravels quickly for a group of friends after they place an order from a closed down, haunted pizzeria.
2023-10-28 | en