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 |
Running time | 64 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Chasing Trouble is a 1940 American comedy-drama film directed by Howard Bretherton, from Monogram Pictures.
Plot summary
Jimmy "Mr. Cupid" O’Brien (Frankie Darro) and Thomas H. Jefferson (Mantan Moreland) are making deliveries for the local florist and manage to get a job for their unemployed friend, Susie Carey (Marjorie Reynolds).
They are unaware that the proprietor, Mr. Morgan (Alex Callam), 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 (Milburn Stone) and the police to help them before the bomb they are supposed to deliver goes off at an airplane factory.
Cast
- Frankie Darro as Jimmy 'Cupid' O'Brien
- Mantan Moreland as Jefferson
- Marjorie Reynolds as Susie
- Milburn Stone as Callahan
- Cheryl Walker as Phyllis Bentley
- George Cleveland as Lester
- Alex Callam as Morgan
- Tristram Coffin as Phillips
- I. Stanford Jolley as Molotoff
- Lillian Elliott as Mrs. O'Brien
- Willy Castello as Kurt
- Donald Kerr as Cassidy
External links
- Chasing Trouble at IMDb
- Chasing Trouble is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive