Trouble for Two
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| Directed by | J. Walter Ruben |
| Produced by | Louis D. Lighton |
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Robert Louis Stevenson (story) Edward E. Paramore Jr. Manuel Seff |
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Robert Montgomery Rosalind Russell |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
| Cinematography | Charles G. Clarke |
| Edited by | Robert J. Kern |
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75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Trouble for Two is a 1936 film starring Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell. It is based on The Suicide Club, a short story collection by Robert Louis Stevenson. A European prince, unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, finds intrigue at an unusual London club.
Prince Florizel of Carovia (Robert Montgomery) is unpleasantly surprised to learn that negotiations for his marriage to Princess Brenda of Irania are far advanced. He has not seen his intended bride since they were children, and at the time, he was not impressed. Luckily for him, Brenda is equally unwilling to marry him, likening it to "buying a pig in a poke". However, his father, the King (E. E. Clive), reminds him of his duty and their somewhat precarious position; only three years earlier, a revolution was suppressed, and the ringleaders are still at large. The King sends his son to London to think things over, accompanied by Colonel Geraldine (Frank Morgan).
Traveling incognito, Florizel meets a mysterious woman, Miss Vandeleur (Rosalind Russell) aboard the ship bound for London. She asks him to keep an envelope and return it to her after they arrive. Intrigued, he intervenes when a menacing man enters her cabin to demand the papers, but waits in vain for her at the dock. Geraldine suspects she is part of an assassination conspiracy against the prince when a steward informs them her cabin was unoccupied for the voyage. When Geraldine opens the envelope, they find only blank paper.
In London, they are dining at a restaurant when a young man (Louis Hayward) enters with servants bearing trays of cream tarts and asks a woman patron to eat one. Suspicious, she refuses, so he consumes it himself. When the man asks Florizel, saying he offers them in the "spirit of mockery," the prince not only accepts, he splits up the remaining ten tarts with the man and Geraldine, and asks him to dinner to hear his story. The man, Cecil Barnley, confesses to having frivolously squandered his fortune and has embarked on one last silly lark before ending his life at the secret Suicide Club, which arranges deaths in such a manner as to avoid embarrassing its members or their families. Florizel, not convinced by Barnley but curious about his claims, pretends that both he and Geraldine also want to commit suicide, and persuades Barnley to take them to the club-Geraldine is represented as being an army officer disgraced for cheating at cards and Florizel claims that he is tired of looking at himself.
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