Richard L. Bare Movies

  • 1953
    So You Want to Be a Musician

    So You Want to Be a Musician

    So You Want to Be a Musician

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    Joe McDoakes can't find a job as a bassoonist, so he pawns his instrument.

    So You Want to Be a Musician
  • 1952
    So You Want to Get It Wholesale

    So You Want to Get It Wholesale

    So You Want to Get It Wholesale

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    Joe uses his "contacts" to buy a new oven as cheaply as possible.

    So You Want to Get It Wholesale
  • 2002
    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

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    The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects...

    Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
  • 1947
    So You're Going to Be a Father

    So You're Going to Be a Father

    So You're Going to Be a Father

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    In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes goes through the problems and anxieties of becoming a new father.

    So You're Going to Be a Father
  • 1948
    So You Want to Build a House

    So You Want to Build a House

    So You Want to Build a House

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    In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns...

    So You Want to Build a House
  • 1953
    Prisoners of the Casbah

    Prisoners of the Casbah

    Prisoners of the Casbah

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    A low-born thief loves a Moroccan Princess. She must marry to escape death at the hands of her enemies. The groom is able to wed or cast away his...

    Prisoners of the Casbah
  • 1951
    So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

    So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

    So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger

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    Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.

    So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
  • 1952
    So You Never Tell a Lie

    So You Never Tell a Lie

    So You Never Tell a Lie

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    When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again...

    So You Never Tell a Lie
  • 1951
    So You Want to Be a Bachelor

    So You Want to Be a Bachelor

    So You Want to Be a Bachelor

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    "I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship...

    So You Want to Be a Bachelor
  • 1949
    So You Want to Be Popular

    So You Want to Be Popular

    So You Want to Be Popular

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    Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox

    So You Want to Be Popular
  • 1958
    Girl on the Run

    Girl on the Run

    Girl on the Run

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    A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.

    Girl on the Run
  • 1953
    So You Want to Be an Heir

    So You Want to Be an Heir

    So You Want to Be an Heir

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    Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.

    So You Want to Be an Heir
  • 1954
    So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

    So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

    So You're Having Neighbor Trouble

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    Joe starts having trouble with an obnoxious neighbor.

    So You're Having Neighbor Trouble
  • 1948
    So You Want to Be a Detective

    So You Want to Be a Detective

    So You Want to Be a Detective

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    Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

    So You Want to Be a Detective
  • 1934
    The Oval Portrait

    The Oval Portrait

    The Oval Portrait

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    An artist is so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent...

    The Oval Portrait
  • 1950
    The Grass Is Always Greener

    The Grass Is Always Greener

    The Grass Is Always Greener

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    Oscar nominated short Western film. Ranch-hands get their ideas challenged when a stranger shows up, telling them how good they have things.

    The Grass Is Always Greener
  • 1955
    So You Want to Be a Gladiator

    So You Want to Be a Gladiator

    So You Want to Be a Gladiator

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    Joe thinks he's back in the gladiator days, and finds himself sentenced to be thrown to the Coliseum lions after breaking a string while playing the...

    So You Want to Be a Gladiator
  • 1955
    So You Want a Model Railroad

    So You Want a Model Railroad

    So You Want a Model Railroad

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    Alice visits Mr. Agony with her latest problem with Joe. They had given Junior a toy railroad for a Christmas present, and Joe had taken it over and...

    So You Want a Model Railroad
  • 1954
    So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

    So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

    So You Want to Be Your Own Boss

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    Joe McDoakes, determined to be his own boss in this Joe McDoakes Comedy entry, opens up a new restaurant. Complaining customers and a sanitation...

    So You Want to Be Your Own Boss
  • 1954
    So You're Taking in a Roomer

    So You're Taking in a Roomer

    So You're Taking in a Roomer

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    Joe and Alice decide to rent a room in their house to their neighbor Marvin, who says he is a potato broker.

    So You're Taking in a Roomer