Chasing Trouble

Chasing Trouble

5.5IMDb Score
Released:1940-01-30
Duration:64 min
Director:Howard Bretherton
Actors:Frankie Darro, Marjorie Reynolds, Mantan Moreland, Milburn Stone, I. Stanford Jolley
Production:Monogram Pictures

Overview:

A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.

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