Chasing Trouble

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Chasing Trouble
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Directed by Howard Bretherton
Screenplay by Mary McCarthy
Produced by Grant Withers
Cinematography Harry Neumann
Edited by Carl Pierson
Distributed by Monogram Pictures
Release date
  • 30 January 1940 (1940-01-30)
Running time
64 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Chasing Trouble is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Bretherton, from Monogram Pictures.

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Plot

Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland in Chasing Trouble (1940) Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland in Chasing Trouble (1940).jpg
Frankie Darro and Mantan Moreland in Chasing Trouble (1940)

Jimmy "Mr. Cupid" O’Brien and Thomas H. Jefferson are making deliveries for the local florist and manage to get a job for their unemployed friend, Susie Carey.

They are unaware that the proprietor, Mr. Morgan, is part of a spy and saboteur ring which is using the florist shop as a front for delivering coded messages and bombs.

Using lesson two of his correspondence course on graphology, Jimmy learns the truth but it might be too late for intrepid investigative reporter Callahan and the police to help them before the bomb they are supposed to deliver goes off at an airplane factory.

Milburn Stone with Marjorie Reynolds, in Chasing Trouble (1940) Milburn Stone with Marjorie Reynolds, in Chasing Trouble (1940).jpg
Milburn Stone with Marjorie Reynolds, in Chasing Trouble (1940)

Cast


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