I Love Trouble

Ok film noir that has a plot similar to that of dozens of other noir and B detective pictures: private eye is hired to find a dame and twists ensue. There's nothing inherently wrong with this movie.

This is quite a complex tale of murder, blackmail and impersonation. Wealthy Tom Powers ("Johnston") hires private investigator Franchot Tone ("Bailey") to investigate his wife.

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town with an actor.

This movie is a fun mystery with all the elements I enjoy - one of my favorites in a long list of good movies. The chemistry between the main characters is very good.

The Big Sleep (1946) starring Humphrey Bogart created a template for what we'd now call detective noir, and the somewhat less charismatic Franchot Tone in this film assumes the role of the tough, wise-cracking but incorruptible private eye.Some of these films' plots held together better than others.

Since there are many people involved here and a number of them acting under phoney names, there is some slight mess here to be sorted out. However, chief detective Franchot Tone gets everything he asks for, and he is mainly asking for trouble, getting socked and beaten about and shot at and all kinds of things and mauled by circumstances to say the least, but he actually survives and do get things sorted out.

Though a seasoned reporter appears to have charmed many ladies on his way to notoriety, he meets his match in a pretty but wise female reporter seeking to get the answer to the mystery behind a train wreck. Villains pursue each reporter as they try to outfox each other and then team up to get to the truth behind the wreck -- a murder that is cloaked by the wreck's apparent cause.

I loved it . I always love Franchot Tone movies.

If you're a heterosexual male, there's only one reason for seeing this movie, or any part of it. And if you're reading this comment, you probably already know what it is, from the one line summary.