Trouble Brewing is a George Forman comedy set in the newspaper biz. George works on the presses but he'd rather be a reporter or Sherlock Holmes. Angus MacPhail, Michael Hogan and Anthony Kimmins wrote the screenplay and Anthony directed. Angus wrote plenty of good films, as did the other two. Anthony directed 4 more films with George and The Captain's Paradise. I've seen half of his 20 directed works.
George teams up with Gus McNaughton and Googie Withers, co-workers from the newspaper, to investigate the counterfeit money spree going on. George has invented an ink that stays on your finger for a week and resists coming off with soap and water. It also stays wet enough to leave fingerprints on whatever the victim touches.
That ink is what a good bit of the crime solving hinges on, George gets some on the fingers of a few people, accidentally they lead him to the criminal's hideout. There's plenty of yelling and action and falling about. George sings a couple of songs between the jokes and the detecting. I enjoyed it and would want to watch it again sometime. I just ordered Keep Fit, a 1937 George film, but it's coming from the UK. Hard to know what travel time will be. Amazon gives themselves a month long delivery window and now all their DVDs seem to be defaulting to Global Priority as the only shipping option.
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