**SPOILERS** Somewhat silly crime movie having to do with a counterfeit ring being run out of a state prison and under the warden's, Warden Denby(William B. Davidson), and his prison guards noses.
The head guy running the ring from the outside is on the lamb fugitive Dice Mathews, Joe Downing. Dice together with his fellow hoodlums plans to launder the "hot" money by having it cooled off, three miles out to sea. Dice has this done at his ex-partner in crime the legit casino cruise ship operator Steve Parker's, Charles D. Brown, gambling boat the S.S Kismet. The job to find out who's responsible for both printing and laundering the phony cash falls on the heads of young hot shot Secret Service and Treasury Agent Let. Brass Bancroft, Ronald Reagan, and his comical partner and side-kick Gabby Watters, Eddie Foy Jr.
The big break for the government agents comes when Parker sick and tired of being used as a laundry delivery boy ,in cleaning up his dirty money, by Dice gets himself arrested. Parker does this by slugging a cop and ending up with a year, not the six months that he expected to get, in the can. Parker feeling safe behind bars then fingered Dice & Co. which had him and his boys busted by the Feds, while they were playing roulette on board the Kismet, and given long prison terms. It was Parker's misfortune that he ended up in the same prison where Dice and his boys were not in solitary confinement away from them where they can't get at him for being a snitch!
Getting a man on the inside of the Dice Prison Counterfeit Ring the Feds decide to sent Brass into the lions den to get to the bottom of who's behind printing up all this crooked money. Tough and more then willing to take chances, for the Dice Mathews Mob,Brass gets in good with Dice by taking the rap for a prison riot he instigated. Brass later ends up crashing out of prison with Dice and later is confronted by the real Mr. Big who runs the entire prison counterfeit operation. It turns out that Mr. Big, through his connections, found out about the Feds and Warden Denby's plan to infiltrate his gang and also who to the undercover US Treasury Agent Brass Bancroft's secret identity really is!
Ronald Reagan does his best to look and act tough as the tough talking and hard punching Brass Bancroft but ends up looking and acting ridicules. It's as if Reagan, as Brass, was an over-sized and over-aged member of the "Little Rascals" instead of a hard as nail G-Man. Even Reagan's clothes in the movie, as a convict, look at least three sizes bigger making him look more like a kid trying on his dads shirts and pants in his unsuccessful attempt to look like a grown up! Reagan's prison cap is so big on him that it almost comes down to his eyes and ears!
In the end Brass does get the goods on the Dice Mathews prison counterfeit ring but only after getting shot a number of times, by Mr. Big, and sent flying, in a runaway automobile, to the bottom of a local lake. ***SPOILER ALERT***Somehow surviving his ordeal, you couldn't say the same about Dice, Bass has Mr. Big exposed and then, in Mr. Big's attempt to make his getaway, shot to pieces by one of the guards at the prison.
Uncharacteristically neither Brass or his goofy partner Gabby Watters get the girl Steve Parker's sexy daughter Peggy, Margot Stevenson, at the end of the movie. Peggy ends up getting hitched up to the manager of the S.S Kismet Gordon, Donald Douglas, who was shot and almost killed by Dice earlier in the film. As for the two Treasury boys they get their next assignment in tracking down and capturing the crazed and extremely dangerous ax murderer Butch Martin. The same Butch Martin who chopped to pieces a fellow government agent back in Kansas and swore to do the same to anyone else, like Brass and Gabby, who tries to arrest him!
P.S Besides the future Governor of California and later leader, as the Presiden of the United States, of the Free World Ronald Wilson Reagan being in the movie there's also the future TV Superman George Reeves in it as well. Mr. Reeves in a non-speaking part can be seen sitting directly behind Steve Parker as he makes his plea in court to the judge for leniency in his admitted crime of punching out a police officer.
The head guy running the ring from the outside is on the lamb fugitive Dice Mathews, Joe Downing. Dice together with his fellow hoodlums plans to launder the "hot" money by having it cooled off, three miles out to sea. Dice has this done at his ex-partner in crime the legit casino cruise ship operator Steve Parker's, Charles D. Brown, gambling boat the S.S Kismet. The job to find out who's responsible for both printing and laundering the phony cash falls on the heads of young hot shot Secret Service and Treasury Agent Let. Brass Bancroft, Ronald Reagan, and his comical partner and side-kick Gabby Watters, Eddie Foy Jr.
The big break for the government agents comes when Parker sick and tired of being used as a laundry delivery boy ,in cleaning up his dirty money, by Dice gets himself arrested. Parker does this by slugging a cop and ending up with a year, not the six months that he expected to get, in the can. Parker feeling safe behind bars then fingered Dice & Co. which had him and his boys busted by the Feds, while they were playing roulette on board the Kismet, and given long prison terms. It was Parker's misfortune that he ended up in the same prison where Dice and his boys were not in solitary confinement away from them where they can't get at him for being a snitch!
Getting a man on the inside of the Dice Prison Counterfeit Ring the Feds decide to sent Brass into the lions den to get to the bottom of who's behind printing up all this crooked money. Tough and more then willing to take chances, for the Dice Mathews Mob,Brass gets in good with Dice by taking the rap for a prison riot he instigated. Brass later ends up crashing out of prison with Dice and later is confronted by the real Mr. Big who runs the entire prison counterfeit operation. It turns out that Mr. Big, through his connections, found out about the Feds and Warden Denby's plan to infiltrate his gang and also who to the undercover US Treasury Agent Brass Bancroft's secret identity really is!
Ronald Reagan does his best to look and act tough as the tough talking and hard punching Brass Bancroft but ends up looking and acting ridicules. It's as if Reagan, as Brass, was an over-sized and over-aged member of the "Little Rascals" instead of a hard as nail G-Man. Even Reagan's clothes in the movie, as a convict, look at least three sizes bigger making him look more like a kid trying on his dads shirts and pants in his unsuccessful attempt to look like a grown up! Reagan's prison cap is so big on him that it almost comes down to his eyes and ears!
In the end Brass does get the goods on the Dice Mathews prison counterfeit ring but only after getting shot a number of times, by Mr. Big, and sent flying, in a runaway automobile, to the bottom of a local lake. ***SPOILER ALERT***Somehow surviving his ordeal, you couldn't say the same about Dice, Bass has Mr. Big exposed and then, in Mr. Big's attempt to make his getaway, shot to pieces by one of the guards at the prison.
Uncharacteristically neither Brass or his goofy partner Gabby Watters get the girl Steve Parker's sexy daughter Peggy, Margot Stevenson, at the end of the movie. Peggy ends up getting hitched up to the manager of the S.S Kismet Gordon, Donald Douglas, who was shot and almost killed by Dice earlier in the film. As for the two Treasury boys they get their next assignment in tracking down and capturing the crazed and extremely dangerous ax murderer Butch Martin. The same Butch Martin who chopped to pieces a fellow government agent back in Kansas and swore to do the same to anyone else, like Brass and Gabby, who tries to arrest him!
P.S Besides the future Governor of California and later leader, as the Presiden of the United States, of the Free World Ronald Wilson Reagan being in the movie there's also the future TV Superman George Reeves in it as well. Mr. Reeves in a non-speaking part can be seen sitting directly behind Steve Parker as he makes his plea in court to the judge for leniency in his admitted crime of punching out a police officer.
