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I Love Trouble (1948 film)

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, Janet Blair and Franchot Tone

'I Love Trouble' is a 1948 American film noir crime film written by Roy Huggins from his first novel 'The Double Take', directed by S. Sylvan Simon, and starring Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey. The character of Stuart Bailey was later portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the television series '77 Sunset Strip'.

Plot



A wealthy politician, Ralph Johnston, hires detective Stuart Bailey to investigate his missing wife's background. Bailey discovers that the wife had been a dancer under her maiden name of Jane Breeger and had left her Oregon home town with Buster Buffin, a nightclub entertainer, who says Jane changed her name to Janie Joy and enrolled at UCLA. Buffin is killed before Bailey can question him further.

Norma Shannon shows up, looking for her sister Jane, but when Bailey shows her a photograph of the missing woman, Norma says it's not her. Bailey learns that the wife had used stolen papers from a girlfriend to enter college after she stole $40,000 from the club where she worked, owned by a man named Keller.

The detective eventually learns that Johnston had killed his wife when he had himself discovered her past, in order to avoid a scandal, and that he had hired the detective in order to frame him for the killing.

Cast



* Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey

* Janet Blair as Norma Shannon

* Janis Carter as Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy

* Adele Jergens as Boots Nestor

* Glenda Farrell as Hazel Bixby

* Steven Geray as Keller

* Tom Powers as Ralph Johnston

* Lynn Merrick as Mrs. Johnston

* John Ireland as Reno

* Sid Tomack as Buster Buffin (uncredited)

* Donald Curtis as Martin

* Eduardo Ciannelli as John Vega Caprillo

* Robert Barrat as Lt. Quint

* Raymond Burr as Herb

*Garry Owen as Gus (uncredited)

Production



The novel and film were written by Roy Huggins, and is laced with a comedic sophistication evident in his subsequent work. In Huggins' Archive of American Television interview, he notes that 'I Love Trouble' was somehow lost and had not been seen anywhere for decades and never run on television, but the film has since been found and screened in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Huggins later created numerous landmark television series such as 'Maverick' starring James Garner, 'The Fugitive' starring David Janssen, 'The Rockford Files' starring Garner, and '77 Sunset Strip' starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Stuart Bailey. 'I Love Trouble' was Huggins' first brush with making narrative film.

See also



* List of American films of 1948

* Public domain film

* List of films in the public domain in the United States

References




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