Here Comes Trouble
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Cast & Crew
Fred Guiol
William Tracy
Joe Sawyer
Emory Parnell
Betty Compson
Joan Woodbury
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Dim-witted Tribune reporter Dorian "Dodo" Doubleday returns from the Army and is made "cop" reporter by his publisher, Winfield Blake. Recently, a string of cop reporters have been beaten up while pursuing a gangland story. Blake, whose daughter Penny hopes to marry Dodo, is hoping Dodo's assignment will get him killed. After the Tribune identifies nightclub owner Rankin as the head of the racketeers, and Blake receives a death threat, Dodo's police friend, Sgt. Ames, attacks Blake, believing that he is his assassin. As a result, Blake fires Dodo. The next day, Blake receives a visit from Bubbles LaRue, a burlesque dancer with whom he had a liaison while at a business convention in Chicago. She has been sent by Rankin to blackmail Blake, but instead, offers him her diary that contains a list of gangsters--as well as a record of her relationship with Blake--for $10,000. To save face with the mob, Bubbles instructs Blake to steal the diary and then knock her out in her theater dressing room. Blake's wife Martha arrives during Bubbles' visit, and, unknown to Blake, she hides in the bathroom with Dodo, who has come to ask for his job back. Eager to please his wife while he is hiding his mistress from her in the next room, Blake rehires Dodo at her request, then sends Dodo to get the diary from Bubbles at the theater where she is performing. Dodo arms himself with Ames's blackjack, but is forced to hide in Bubbles' closet when Rankin's henchman Martin Stafford enters, kills her, and absconds with the diary. In a panic, Dodo drops the blackjack and flees. Stafford ties up one of the burlesque troupe's clowns and puts on his outfit, and when the police arrive, they blame Dodo for the murder. Dodo discovers the bound clown and frees him, then goes after his impostor in a backstage and onstage chase involving Rankin's gang, the police, Ames, Blake and Penny, who suspects that Dodo has been having an affair with Bubbles. When Stafford takes Penny hostage, Dodo saves her. Stafford and Rankin are then caught, and the police get the diary. Finally, Dodo and Penny kiss.
Director
Fred Guiol
Cast
William Tracy
Joe Sawyer
Emory Parnell
Betty Compson
Joan Woodbury
Paul Stanton
Beverly Loyd
Patti Morgan
Thomas Jackson
Stanley Prager
Eddie Bartell
Mimi Berry
Donald Kerr
Tommy Reilly
Charles Sullivan
Nell Craig
Ben Weldon
Harry Cheshire
James Finlayson
George Humbert
Alfred Latell
Ralf Harolde
George Davis
Margaret Roach
Garry Owen
Harold Goodwin
Eddie Parks
Charles Middleton
Jack Mccarthy
Helen Servis
Walter Soderling
Gertrude Astor
Crew
Pete Beachley
Harry Black
John W. Boyle
George Carleton Brown
Ellis W. Carter
Edward Comfort
Jack Crosby
Loretta Francel
Burris Grimwood
Fred Guiol
Eugene Hackley
James Lane
Charles Morton
Jerome Pycha Jr.
William Randall
Hal Roach
Hal Roach Jr.
Heinz Roemheld
Edward E. Seabrook
Roy W. Seawright
Arthur Seid
William Stevens
Sidney Van Keuren
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This film was part one of two pictures sold by Hal Roach as the single feature Laff-Time; part two was Who Killed Doc Robbin (see below). Silent film star Betty Compson came out of an eight-year retirement from the screen to appear in this film. Here Comes Trouble was one of Roach's "streamlined features," a series of short comedies intended to fill the second half of a double bill. For additional information about the streamlined features and about the "Doubleday-Ames" series, please consult the Series Index and for Tanks a Million.
