George WaGGner goes back to the 1940's as a terrific Film Noir Director (among other things), so having all the noir-style films he had done by this point under his belt, giving "Double Trouble" a "Noir-ish" kind of feel was like falling off a log for WaGGner. And this "77" outing is just dripping with:
A) Old-School Gangsters - and Warner's built the studio on that sort of thing, and
B) The kind of Intrigue (much of which would be "Foreign Intrigue") that keeps the viewer on the edge of their seat.
The U.S. Government has looked high and low to find someone they can slip into an organized-crime outfit, and (of course) it turns out one of the principals of the Bailey and Spencer Detective Agency can easily pass for the Bad Guy In Question - with just a little lightening of his hair color as well as his eye color (with a light-colored set of contact lenses). That's only a little odd, considering when this one was made, the only contacts that were made were the local AS#
The U.S. Government has looked high and low to find someone they can slip into an organized-crime outfit, and (of course) it turns out one of the principals of the Bailey and Spencer Detective Agency can easily pass for the Bad Guy In Question - with just a little lightening of his hair color as well as his eye color (with a light-colored set of contact lenses). That's only a little odd, considering when this one was made, the only contacts that were made were the local AS#
