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I Love Trouble
I Love Trouble
	Film poster
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; company	Cornell Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	January 15, 1948 (United States);
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]

Plot

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 tells him 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 is 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.

Bailey 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.

Cast

Franchot Tone as Stuart Bailey
Janet Blair as Norma Shannon
Janis Carter as Mrs. Caprillo aka Jane Breeger aka Janie Joy
Adele Jergens as Boots Nestor
Glenda Farrell as Hazel Bixby
Steven Geray as Keller
Tom Powers as Ralph Johnson
Lynn Merrick as Mrs. Johnson
John Ireland as Reno
Sid Tomack as Buster Buffin (uncredited)
Donald Curtis as Martin
Eduardo Ciannelli as John Vega Caprillo
Robert Barrat as Lt. Quint
Raymond Burr as Herb
Garry Owen as Gus (uncredited)

Production

The novel and screenplay were written by Roy Huggins, and show the comedic sophistication evident in his subsequent work.^{[citation needed]} 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 attempt at writing a narrative film.

In Huggins' Archive of American Television interview,^[5] he notes that I Love Trouble was somehow lost and had not been seen anywhere for decades and never run on television. The film has since been found and screened in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.^{[citation needed]} It was shown on the Turner Classic Movies show 'Noir Alley' with Eddie Muller on September 24, 2022.

References

^ Keaney, Michael F. (2003). Film Noir Guide, 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959 (illustrated ed.). McFarland. p. 541. ISBN 9780786415472.
^ "Stuart Bailey". thrillingdetective.com. Thrilling Detective. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^ "I Love Trouble". citwf.com. Complete Index To World Film. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
^ "77 Sunset Strip". Thrilling Detective. 12 April 2019. pp. thrillingdetective.com. Retrieved 2022-09-17.
^ Goldberg, Lee (21 July 1998). "The Interviews: Roy Huggins". Television Academy Foundation. Retrieved 17 September 2024.