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Trouble For Two (1936)

• Director
  • J. Walter Ruben
• Writers
  • Robert Louis Stevenson(story "The Suicide Club")
  • Manuel Seff(screen play)
  • Edward E. Paramore Jr.(screen play)
• Stars
  • Robert Montgomery
  • Rosalind Russell
  • Frank Morgan

  Though its title and cast suggests a lighthearted romantic comedy, Trouble for Two is actually a fairly faithful adaptation of three of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories. Robert Montgomery stars as incognito Prince Florizel, who is lured to a gathering of strange characters devoted to suicide and murder. One of the conclave members is the enigmatic Miss Vandelur (Rosalind Russell) -- who, unbeknownst to Florizel, is actually the princess he is slated to marry. It soon develops that the Suicide Club is being used as a blind by a gang of international terrorists, bent on toppling Florizel from his throne. Louis Hayward has a fascinating bit as "The Man with the Cream Tarts," whose burning desire to end his own life leads Florizel into the clutches of the villains.