© Soundies Distributing Corp. of America, Inc.; 26Nov45; MP16565.
SORROWFUL JONES. Paramount Pictures Inc., c1949. 88 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. A new version of the 1934 motion picture "Little Miss Marker." Based on a story by Damon Runyon.
Summary: A comedy about a penny-pinching Broadway bookie who receives a small child as security for a gambling debt.
Credits: Producer, Robert L. Welch; director, Sidney Lanfield; screenplay, Melville Shavelson, Edmund Hartmann, Jack Rose; adapted from a screenplay by William R. Lipman, Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman; music score, Robert Emmett Dolan.
Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Thomas Gomez.
© Paramount Pictures Inc.; 4Jul49 (in notice: 1948); LP2434.
SORRY, WRONG NUMBER. Hal Wallis Productions, Inc., c1948. 89 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the radio play by Lucille Fletcher.
Summary: A melodrama based on a series of telephone calls, through which a young wife learns that her husband has plotted to murder her in order to secure insurance money. The husband repents his part in the crime, but does so too late to save his wife from death at the hands of gangsters.
Credits: Producers, Hal Wallis, Anatole Litvak; director, Anatole Litvak; screenplay, Lucille Fletcher; music, Franz Waxman; editor, Warren Low.
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea.