Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe 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.
Fotos
Phil Bloom
- Doorman
- (Nicht genannt)
William A. Boardway
- Committee Member
- (Nicht genannt)
Lane Chandler
- Flagship Radio Officer
- (Nicht genannt)
Cliff Clark
- Police Chief at Morgue
- (Nicht genannt)
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesFinal 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).
- PatzerThe 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).
- Zitate
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!
- VerbindungenFollows Secret Service of the Air (1939)
Ausgewählte Rezension
Ronald's first ray-gun: a minor but fun 'spy-fi' thriller
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.
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- jamesrupert2014
- 5. Apr. 2021
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By what name was Murder in the Air (1940) officially released in India in English?
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