I Love Trouble

1948
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1h 33m

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Janet Blair and Franchot Tone in I Love Trouble (1948)

Film Noir Hard-boiled Detective True Crime Whodunnit Crime Drama Mystery

Un homme riche engage un détective pour enquêter sur le passé de sa femme. Le détective découvre que la femme avait été danseuse et a quitté sa ville natale avec un acteur, et autant d'autre... Tout lireUn homme riche engage un détective pour enquêter sur le passé de sa femme. Le détective découvre que la femme avait été danseuse et a quitté sa ville natale avec un acteur, et autant d'autres secrets.Un homme riche engage un détective pour enquêter sur le passé de sa femme. Le détective découvre que la femme avait été danseuse et a quitté sa ville natale avec un acteur, et autant d'autres secrets.

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Anecdotes
Based on a magazine story by Roy Huggins, this movie provided the round-about genesis of the TV series 77 Sunset Strip (1958) (also created by Huggins). In this movie, Franchot Tone plays LA detective Stuart Bailey, which is the same name of the detective played ten years later by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in the 1958 movie Girl on the Run (1958), which, in turn, was spun off into the "Strip" TV series that same year. This movie was produced by Columbia Pictures, while subsequent movie and TV series were made by Warner Bros.

Gaffes
Bailey's client is referred to as Mr. Johnson. In the note he shows Bailey, his name is Johnston.

Citations
Stuart Bailey: You ever have the feeling you've been watched or followed?
Hazel Bixby: Not nearly enough.

Connexions
Edited into Tep No & KT Tunstall: Heartbeat Bangs (2021)

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7/10

Nifty Noir

Roy Huggins who later wrote and produced and gained a big reputation on the small screen for quality, wrote the mystery novel on which this film is based. I Love Trouble clearly shows the influence of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler in both plot and characters.

Franchot Tone is our protagonist private eye Stu Bailey, a character name that would recur again on the big and small screen. Tom Powers hires him to find his missing wife. On the trail he's aided and abetted by his loyal girl Friday Glenda Farrell who is the most memorable character in the film in a movie chock full of good character performances.

A lot of people are interested in this woman including millionaire wife Janis Carter, her 'sister' Janet Blair, sleazy nightclub owner Steven Geray and his henchmen who include John Ireland and Raymond Burr. They're a memorable bunch, but almost as memorable as Farrell are spoiled wife Adele Jergens who makes a big play for Tone and nightclub comic Sid Tomack who is not above a little information peddling on the side that costs him dear.

I'm surprised Tone did not do more roles like this. He certainly displayed the proper and expected laconic behavior for a private detective. It was that typecasting he could never get away from. The studio brass wanted him in formal evening wear dispensing bon mots and generally losing the girl in A films to the likes of Clark Gable at his first studio MGM.

I Love Trouble is not anything like the Julia Roberts/Nick Nolte film of more recent vintage. Instead it's a nifty noir mystery from Columbia. In fact it's really two mysteries that sort of get jumbled together in Tone's investigation. Hopefully that whets your appetite to see it.