अपनी भाषा में प्लॉट जोड़ेंThe corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.
Phil Bloom
- Doorman
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William A. Boardway
- Committee Member
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Lane Chandler
- Flagship Radio Officer
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Cliff Clark
- Police Chief at Morgue
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Murder in the Air (1940)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Fourth and final film in Warner's Brass Bancroft series with Ronald Reagan in the lead. This time out enemy agents are destroying various sites and now they have their eyes on destroying the entire country. Reagan goes undercover and gets inside the gang to try and stop them before more damage is done. This is probably the second best in the series (behind the third film) and fans of "B" movies will certainly have enough here to keep them entertained. The film, running just 55-minutes, makes for some nice entertainment because it throws pretty much everything in except for the kitchen sink but then again that might have ended up on the cutting room floor. The entire movie goes at a very fast pace and it leads up to a very good ending set on a Dirigible, which of course has to crash into the ocean. I wish this sequence would have gone on longer but what's here is nice. Reagan is very comfortable in the role and manages to turn in his best performance of the series. His tough act is a lot more believable here than in the previous three films and Eddie Foy, Jr. is back for comic relief. John Litel and James Stephenson co-star.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Fourth and final film in Warner's Brass Bancroft series with Ronald Reagan in the lead. This time out enemy agents are destroying various sites and now they have their eyes on destroying the entire country. Reagan goes undercover and gets inside the gang to try and stop them before more damage is done. This is probably the second best in the series (behind the third film) and fans of "B" movies will certainly have enough here to keep them entertained. The film, running just 55-minutes, makes for some nice entertainment because it throws pretty much everything in except for the kitchen sink but then again that might have ended up on the cutting room floor. The entire movie goes at a very fast pace and it leads up to a very good ending set on a Dirigible, which of course has to crash into the ocean. I wish this sequence would have gone on longer but what's here is nice. Reagan is very comfortable in the role and manages to turn in his best performance of the series. His tough act is a lot more believable here than in the previous three films and Eddie Foy, Jr. is back for comic relief. John Litel and James Stephenson co-star.
You can't expect a lot from B movie series that were made to fill Saturday afternoons until it was time to show the A pic again. Which is good, because there isn't much here.
Except for a bizarre piece of science fiction called the Inertia Projector, that looks as if it were lifted directly from another Saturday afternoon serial, the Flash Gordon series. This thing shoots a light ray that is supposed to paralyze any sort of mechanical contraption. When it appears in the otherwise very realistic movie, it really seems to come from out - way out - in left field.
Others have joked about this being a precursor to the wacky Star Wars defense system that was proposed during the Reagan administration.
What I found more interesting is that this movie played into the real fear of enemy sabotage in this country a full year before Pearl Harbor.
There's no point in examining this movie too closely. Such movies were produced quickly and not designed to withstand close scrutiny. It was very much a product of its time, and while certainly not a great example of movie-making, decently done for what it was.
Except for a bizarre piece of science fiction called the Inertia Projector, that looks as if it were lifted directly from another Saturday afternoon serial, the Flash Gordon series. This thing shoots a light ray that is supposed to paralyze any sort of mechanical contraption. When it appears in the otherwise very realistic movie, it really seems to come from out - way out - in left field.
Others have joked about this being a precursor to the wacky Star Wars defense system that was proposed during the Reagan administration.
What I found more interesting is that this movie played into the real fear of enemy sabotage in this country a full year before Pearl Harbor.
There's no point in examining this movie too closely. Such movies were produced quickly and not designed to withstand close scrutiny. It was very much a product of its time, and while certainly not a great example of movie-making, decently done for what it was.
Harmless escapist fun, with Reagan as Brass Bancroft again.
He and Foy aren't bad together, but the "bad guys" are collectively awful.
He and Foy aren't bad together, but the "bad guys" are collectively awful.
President Ronald Reagan has been accused of being a second rate actor, mostly due to his appearance in BEDTIME FOR BONZO. However he actually appeared (albeit in many supporting roles) in respectable, even good films. Early in his career he was earmarked for some type of stardom by the "Brass Bancroft" films.
I have never seen any of these "Brass Bancroft" Secret Agent films made by Reagan in the late 1930s, but this one has always intrigued me. Supposedly the destruction of the Naval Airship Mason is actually based on some footage of the destruction (in 1935) of the last Naval Zeppelin "U.S.S. Macon" which was lost in the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur. I'm not expecting anything along the lines of the film of the Hindenburg Crash, or of the Challenger explosion, but it would be curious to see it.
I have never seen any of these "Brass Bancroft" Secret Agent films made by Reagan in the late 1930s, but this one has always intrigued me. Supposedly the destruction of the Naval Airship Mason is actually based on some footage of the destruction (in 1935) of the last Naval Zeppelin "U.S.S. Macon" which was lost in the Pacific Ocean at Big Sur. I'm not expecting anything along the lines of the film of the Hindenburg Crash, or of the Challenger explosion, but it would be curious to see it.
Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft (Ronald Reagan) goes undercover to infiltrate a saboteur ring that is after an experimental energy weapon (the "inertia projector") that is about to be tested onboard a giant Navy dirigible. The slim story resembles a forties serial without the numerous cliff-hangers as the Bancroft almost single-handedly defeats nefarious spies led by Garvey (James Stephenson) and Rumford (Victor Zimmerman) through a series of fights, chases and daring-do. Reagan is pretty good as the incredibly lanky Bancroft but his sidekick 'Gabby' (Eddie Foy) who, with his put-upon fiancée Dolly (Helen Lynd), provides some dated comic-relief, get tiresome quickly. The pre-war film is a bit jingoistic but seems more concerned with socialists than with Nazis or the Japanese - at one point Bancroft is roughed-up and 'arrested' after being accused of being a 'wobbly' (a member of 'The Industrial Workers of the World'). The film moves through its brief running time briskly and despite some ludicrous touches (the clandestine saboteurs sport very obvious tattoos that everyone seems to recognise), the story is entertaining and the special effects, such as the downing of the huge dirigible quite well done (for budget and genre). The low-budget, somewhat misleadingly titled thriller may be best known for a plot involving a theoretical energy weapon that (in the hands of the USA) would bring about world peace and starring future President Reagan, who (four decades later) would endorse SDI 'Star Wars', an initiative involving theoretical energy weapons that (in the hands of the USA) would bring about world peace.
क्या आपको पता है
- ट्रिवियाFinal scenes shot on location at Los Angeles Metropolitan Airport (Van Nuys Airport). These scenes taken on Waterman Drive which is same location as used in Casablanca (1942).
- गूफ़The dirigible USS Mason is referred to repeatedly by that name, but the name painted on her envelope is Macon (the name of the real-life Navy dirigible lost at sea in 1935).
- भाव
Brass Bancroft: Sabotage?
Saxby: Yes, but we're primarily interested in the body of a hobo that was found dead in the wreckage. He was wearing a money belt containing fifty thousand dollars.
Gabby Watters: [Whistles] A little spending money! He must have been king of the hobos!
- कनेक्शनFollows Secret Service of the Air (1939)
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- भाषा
- इस रूप में भी जाना जाता है
- The Enemy Within
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- 1.37 : 1
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