Here Comes Trouble

Hoping to start up where he left off before his studio was taken over by the government during WWII, Hal Roach turned out a brief series of “streamliners” (short-length feature films) under the umbrella title Hal Roach’s Laff-Time. The third entry in this series was Here Comes Trouble, a Cinecolor attempt to revive a popular Roach military-comedy series from the early 1940s. William Tracy and Joe Sawyer return respectively as Doubleday and Ames, erstwhile army buddies with a predilection for trouble. Now in civilian clothes, Doubleday, he of the photographic memory, becomes a newspaper reporter, while the long-suffering Ames joins the police force. It doesn’t take long for our heroes to become involved in a hectic search for a valuable missing diary. Former silent screen star Betty Compson provides a touch of class in the role of newspaper publisher’s wife., A cub reporter (William Tracy) helps solve the murder of a stripper. Joe Sawyer, Betty Compson. Bubbles LaRue: Joan Woodbury. Winfield: Emory Parnell. Penny: Beverly Loyd. Dexter: Patti Morgan. Stafford: Paul Stanton. Hokum. Directed by Fred Guiol.