Damon Runyon’s story of a bookie (Adolphe Menjou) who finds himself in possession of a little girl (Shirley Temple) as an IOU for a gambling debt. Alexander Hall directed this 1934 feature. The Reader ...
Little Martha Jane, aka Little Miss Marker is left with the bookmaker Sorrowful Jones by her dad as part of a bet on a horse race. Sorrowful and his group of fellow bookies take to her, reluctantly at ...
"The Red-Haired Alibi," 1932. "To the Last Man," 1933. "Out All Night," 1933. "Carolina," 1934. "Mandalay," 1934. "Stand Up and Cheer," 1934. "Now I'll Tell," 1934 ...
Sorrowful Jones (Paramount), a remake of Damon Runyon’s Little Miss Marker, turns out to be a major salvage operation. The original 1934 Hollywood version lifted Shirley Temple to stardom. The current ...
Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for ...
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