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| Directed by | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Screenplay by | Roy Huggins |
| Based on | Roy Huggins (novel The Double Take) |
| Produced by | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Starring | Franchot Tone Janet Blair Janis Carter |
| Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Music by | George Duning |
Production | Cornell Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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.[1][2][3] The character of Stuart Bailey was later portrayed by Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. in the television series 77 Sunset Strip.[4]
A wealthy politician, Ralph Johnson, 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 Johnson had discovered her past and, in order to avoid a scandal, had hired Bailey as part of an elaborate scheme to kill his wife and frame the detective.
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 ArtinNew 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.
Shown on the Turner Classic Movies show 'Noir Alley' with Eddie Muller on September 24, 2022.
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Films directed by S. Sylvan Simon
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