Kind of fun, actually, with no time wasted.
Reagan is a transport pilot who is recruited by the Secret Service to do some undercover work in a gang of ugly thugs who run a business transporting rich white illegals from Mexico into the United States to pick melons. Well -- not to pick melons but to find a stash of bonds or engage in some other scurrilous activity.
To give the pristine Reagan the proper background, the Secret Service frames him for some outrage and puts him in a cell with a former pilot for the sneaky business. The imprisoned pilot gives Reagan the low down on the business -- "Just mention my name." But when a staged getaway is deliberately thwarted by the Secret Service, the pilot goes back to the slams and Reagan is released, now with the requisite prison record, and insinuates himself into the gang as their new pilot.
The gang is suspicious of Regan for a while and they put him on probation, but eventually accept him as a really good bad guy. That's when the original pilot gets out of the slams, and when he hears that Reagan is doing the flying, he twigs to the fact that that getaway attempt was staged by the Secret Service. How? I don't know. Call it fulgurating intuition.
It's a kinetic, no-nonsense movie, full of brawls in Mexican cantinas, the dumping of passengers out of a kind of bomb bay, Reagan's refulgent grin, and people sneaking around and spying on others. There's hardly a dull moment.
Is it a B feature? You bet, but a good example of its kind.
Reagan is a transport pilot who is recruited by the Secret Service to do some undercover work in a gang of ugly thugs who run a business transporting rich white illegals from Mexico into the United States to pick melons. Well -- not to pick melons but to find a stash of bonds or engage in some other scurrilous activity.
To give the pristine Reagan the proper background, the Secret Service frames him for some outrage and puts him in a cell with a former pilot for the sneaky business. The imprisoned pilot gives Reagan the low down on the business -- "Just mention my name." But when a staged getaway is deliberately thwarted by the Secret Service, the pilot goes back to the slams and Reagan is released, now with the requisite prison record, and insinuates himself into the gang as their new pilot.
The gang is suspicious of Regan for a while and they put him on probation, but eventually accept him as a really good bad guy. That's when the original pilot gets out of the slams, and when he hears that Reagan is doing the flying, he twigs to the fact that that getaway attempt was staged by the Secret Service. How? I don't know. Call it fulgurating intuition.
It's a kinetic, no-nonsense movie, full of brawls in Mexican cantinas, the dumping of passengers out of a kind of bomb bay, Reagan's refulgent grin, and people sneaking around and spying on others. There's hardly a dull moment.
Is it a B feature? You bet, but a good example of its kind.