So You Think You're Not Guilty
- IMDb link: 0041892
- IMDb rating: 6 (488 votes) Search
- Genres: Comedy, Short
- Director: Richard L. Bare
- Cast: George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates, Douglas Fowley, Don C. Harvey and others
- Release date: 15 Apr 1950
- Release year: 1950
- Runtime: 10 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: producer, pleading not guilty, district attorney, hanging by one's suspenders, joe mcdoakes character, inept lawyer, parolee, traffic officer, escape from prison, blindness
Plot
Storyline
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
Joe McDoakes is passing a traffic-light sign, when suddenly the signal seems broken. It's going up and down and up and down. On the crossroad McDoakes is only barely able to prevent an accident. A traffic agent approaches him and asks for his papers. But McDoakes hasn't got them with him and he must pay a fine of two dollars for passing a red light. But Joe McDoakes is a stubborn man. He wants to prove to the whole world that he is not guilty. Instead of paying the fine, he asks for a jury trial, although that doesn't seem like a good thing to do.
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