Double Trouble

Double Trouble (1941)

A Double-play On The Nation's Funny-bone!

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.

Date of release
1941-11-21
TMDB
10.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 3m
Genres
Comedy
Director
William West

Casting

Interesting facts

Double Trouble is a 1941 American comedy film directed by the former Chaplin impersonator Billy West under the pseudonym "William West". The film stars Harry Langdon, Charles Rogers, and Catherine Lewis. It was released on November 21, 1941. During production the working title of the film was Here We Go Again.

Production

Silent-screen comedian Billy West had joined the Monogram staff in 1940 as an occasional director. The studio reminded movie columnists of West's credentials: "William West, director of Monogram's The Last Alarm, is a former screen comedian, having appeared in more than 200 comedies." West was then working full-time at Columbia Pictures, where he and his wife operated the Columbia Grill, a quick-service restaurant.

Both Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers had been gag writers for Laurel and Hardy. Rogers remembered the team's film Our Relations (1936), where the "Stan and Ollie" characters had twin brothers named "Alf and Bert". Rogers reused these character names for his new partnership with Langdon.

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