Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble

Looking for Trouble

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Looking for Trouble

1926

0h 49m

9.0(1 votes)

Action

Adventure

Romance

Western

Overview

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds a liquor cache on the Hellier ranch and knows it was placed there as a ruse to distract the sheriff while an outlaw gang runs dope across the border.

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Universal Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

8 featured cast members

Starring

Jack Hoxie

Jack Hoxie

Jack William Pepper

Marceline Day

Marceline Day

Tulip Hellier

J. Gordon Russell

J. Gordon Russell

Jasper Murchison

Clark Comstock

Jim Hellier

Edmund Cobb

Edmund Cobb

Phil Curtis

Bud Osborne

Bud Osborne

Lou Burkhold

Peggy Montgomery

Peggy Montgomery

Laura Burkhold

William Dyer

William Dyer

Sheriff Tom Plump

Creative team

Directed by: Robert N. Bradbury
Written by: Stephen Chalmers

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