To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.
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Roscoe Ates
- Edmund Joyce
- (as Rosco Ates)
Gustav von Seyffertitz
- Charles Spengler
- (as Gustav Von Seyffertitz)
Shirley Chambers
- Blonde in Bath
- (uncredited)
James Conaty
- Asst. Defense Attorney
- (uncredited)
Samuel Fuller
- Minor Role
- (rumored)
- (uncredited)
- …
William Halligan
- Tracy
- (uncredited)
Julie Haydon
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
- Turnkey
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis film was mildly successful at the box office, earning RKO a profit of $21,000 ($474,000 in 2022) according to studio records.
- GoofsWhen the Bruce Cabot character is reading the newspaper, both the headlines and the beginning text of the article are clearly visible. However, the text does not match the headlines, and is actually a hodgepodge of nonsensical wording.
- Quotes
Chick Brian: Aww Mr. Dale, don't get sore.
Jeff Dale: I was born that way.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Complete Citizen Kane (1991)
- SoundtracksTHREE LITTLE WORDS
(1930) (uncredited)
Written by Harry Ruby
Lyrics by Bert Kalmar
Hummed by uncredited bathing blonde
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This plan never works! So why do they keep trying it?
Reporter stumbles upon murder scene and gets the harebrained idea of framing himself for it. This will allow him to write a great human interest story about the thoughts and feelings of a man being hunted by the police. And of course he can prove that he didn't do it, when the time comes. And of course he winds up in much too close proximity to the electric chair. (What his cute g.f. Dorothy Jordan sees in this loser is a mystery to me.) The plot is as silly here as in nearly every other variation of the one where some moron frames himself for murder with good intentions, but Jordan is perky and helps carry the film in one of her bigger RKO roles. Seeing her name in the credits was the primary reason I watched this picture.
Despite the story problems, picture is also well made by director J Walter Ruben (this was the second film of his that I had ever seen). Ruben and his films are largely forgotten, but he was one of the first writer-director double threats of the sound era, working nearly a decade at RKO before moving over to MGM where he produced but only occasionally directed, before his premature death in the early 1940s. Most of his films are well worth seeking out. TROUBLE FOR TWO, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," is outstanding.
Despite the story problems, picture is also well made by director J Walter Ruben (this was the second film of his that I had ever seen). Ruben and his films are largely forgotten, but he was one of the first writer-director double threats of the sound era, working nearly a decade at RKO before moving over to MGM where he produced but only occasionally directed, before his premature death in the early 1940s. Most of his films are well worth seeking out. TROUBLE FOR TWO, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Suicide Club," is outstanding.
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- rduchmann
- Jun 4, 2000
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- Also known as
- Убийство в придорожной закусочной
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- Budget
- $117,713 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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