''Here Comes Trouble'' is a 1948 American

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in the

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series. It was produced and directed by

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and written by George Carleton Brown and Edward E. Seabrook. The film stars

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Emory Parnell Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. Early years Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Parnell trained as a musician at Morningside ...

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(in her final film) and

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. It was released on March 15, 1948 by

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Plot

Returning home from his army service in the

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, Dodo Doubleday resumes his former job as a

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at a newspaper. Dodo's girlfriend Penny Blake is determined to have her father, the editor of the newspaper, promote Dodo to a job with a salary that will allow them to afford to marry. However, her father "Windy" Blake detests Dodo and wants Penny to marry someone of her own social standing. After a quarter of the paper's police reporters are beaten up by gangsters and leave town, Windy sees the answer to his problems by promoting Dodo to police reporter. Reporting to the police station on his first day on the job, Dodo meets his old Sergeant Ames who is now a uniformed police officer on his own first day on the force. The pair team up to break up the organized crime ring that leads to double crossing, blackmail, murder and a frantic chase in a house of

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Cast

as Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday *

as Officer Ames *

as Winfield 'Windy' Blake *

as Martha Blake *

as Bubbles LaRue * Paul Stanton as Attorney Martin Stafford *Beverly Lloyd as Penny Blake *Patti Morgan as Ester Dexter *Thomas E. Jackson as Chief McClure

References

External links

* 1948 films American black-and-white films United Artists films 1948 comedy films American comedy films Films directed by Fred Guiol Cinecolor films Films scored by Heinz Roemheld 1940s English-language films 1940s American films {{1940s-comedy-film-stub