A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Bob Hope
as Humphrey "Sorrowful" Jones
Lucille Ball
as Gladys O'Neill
William Demarest
as Regret
Bruce Cabot
as Big Steve Holloway
Thomas Gomez
as Reardon
Tom Pedi
as Once Over Sam
Paul Lees
as Orville Smith
Houseley Stevenson
as Doc Chesley
Ben Welden
as Big Steve's Bodyguard
Emmett Vogan
as Psychiatrist
Mary Jane Saunders
as Martha Jane Smith
Erville Alderson
as Happy the Mortician (uncredited)
