So You Want to Be a Gambler

This was another Joe McDoakes short that I recently watched, this time on the TCM site. In this one, the character played by George O'Hanlon is a gambler who's always broke. But he keeps playing on from a pinball machine to poker to dice to roulette wheel. My favorite was the dice part where his partner gives him "Mexican jumping dice" in the guise of selling cigarettes. Boy, how those dice jump! And then there's the poker sequence where a player there has an extra "hand"! And dig how announcer Art Gilmore speaks of Joe's pinball playing as if it's a golf round especially when a kid almost ruins the bout! So on that note, So You Want to Be a Gambler is another Joe McDoakes entry that's well worth a look.