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Time Out for Trouble

Time Out for Trouble

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Time Out for Trouble

1938

0h 19m

4.2(5 votes)

Comedy

Overview

Charley Chase is engaged to be married and while in a department store, shopping for his fiancée, saves a woman from being hit on the head by a heavy box, but his fiancée only sees a newspaper-published picture of Charley holding the girl in his lap. His angry fiancée breaks off their engagement.

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Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast & crew

6 featured cast members

Starring

Charley Chase

Charley Chase

Charley

Ann Doran

Ann Doran

Maisie

Dick Curtis

Dick Curtis

Louie Derringer

Vernon Dent

Vernon Dent

Bakery Man

Bess Flowers

Bess Flowers

Sales Clerk

Louise Stanley

Louise Stanley

Edith

Creative team

Directed by: Del Lord
Written by: Victor Travis
Searle Kramer
Produced by: Jules White

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