Trouble Man is a 1972 American blaxploitation crime thriller film directed by Ivan Dixon and produced and released by 20th Century Fox.

T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South Central Los Angeles.

An anonymous informant fingers T for the killing and makes him the target for Big and for LAPD captain Joe Marx (William Smithers), who dislikes T on principle.

That sets off a series of cunning twists and confrontations that T is determined to survive, which became complicated when Big is shot and killed in front of T. The film was written and executive produced by John D. F. Black, who had co-written Shaft (1971).

"[6] Jimi Izrael of NPR called Trouble Man "a strong film" but one that "never had an entry point for mainstream audiences to grasp.