Code of the Secret Service

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Ronald Reagan and Rosella Towne in Code of the Secret Service (1939)

Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueBrass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.Brass is assigned to uncovering a counterfeiting ring that has stolen bona fide treasury plates and is converting $1 bills to $100 bills through a Mexican casino.

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ÉVALUATION IMDb

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341

MA NOTE

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Vidéos1

Trailer 1:34

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Rôles principaux39

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Ronald Reagan

Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft

Rosella Towne

Elaine

Eddie Foy Jr.

Gabby Watters

Moroni Olsen

Friar Parker

Edgar Edwards

Ross

Jack Mower

Decker

John Gallaudet

Dan Crockett

Joe King

Jim Saxby
(as Joseph King)

Steve Darrell

Butch
(as Stevan Darrell)

Sol Gorss

Dutch

George Regas

Mexican Police Officer

Rafael Alcayde

First Detective on Train
(uncredited)

Ray Beltram

Townsman
(uncredited)

Dick Botiller

Mexican Police Chief
(uncredited)

Glen Cavender

Policeman
(uncredited)

Demetris Emanuel

Border Police Officer
(uncredited)

Antonio Filauri

Second Detective on Train
(uncredited)

Martin Garralaga

Mexican Soldier Playing Strip Poker
(uncredited)

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Histoire

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Anecdotes
In interviews during his presidency, Ronald Reagan called this movie, "the worst picture I ever made" and also said, "never has an egg of such dimensions been laid". He recalled that a movie usher who had seen the film once told him, "You should be ashamed." However, the film did have one positive effect for Reagan. After seeing the movie, a young man named Jerry Parr was inspired to enter the Secret Service. On March 30, 1981, Parr was the agent who quickly pushed Ronald Reagan into his limousine when John W. Hinckley Jr. fired six shots at the President outside the Washington D.C. Hilton. Parr's quick reaction, and his decision to take the wounded Reagan immediately to George Washington University Hospital, were credited with saving the President's life.

Gaffes
During the opening scene when Eddie Foy Jr. asks Reagan if he can go with him on the assignment, his hands are down by his sides in the closeup. but in the supposedly matching medium shot they are on his hips.

Citations
Gabby: What assignment did you get?
Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft: The Treasury stick-up.
Gabby: Right down my alley. When do we leave?
Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft: Well, you'll have to include yourself out this trip, Gabby. Well, you couldn't go anyway. Aren't you guarding the President?
Gabby: Nah. He went fishin' again. Besides you need a man like me to look after yuh.
Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft: Who's gonna look after you?
Gabby: [Initially laughs but quickly realizes this is no compliment and he frowns] Whatta yuh mean?

Connexions
Featured in The Reagan Show (2017)

Bandes originales
Yankee Doodle
(ca. 1755) (uncredited)
Traditional music of English origin
Whistled by Eddie Foy Jr.

Commentaires des utilisateurs9

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Commentaire en vedette

2/10

The Secret Service Gets The Ring

Code of the Secret Service is the second of several B films that has young B film star Ronald Reagan starring as T-Man Brass Bancroft on assignment to help break up a counterfeiting ring south of the border.

It's a good thing that Reagan went on to better parts in his film career because stuff like this could have sunk him. For reasons that the plot does not explain Reagan and sidekick Eddie Foy, Jr. are instructed not to notify the Mexican officials. That single fact is responsible for nearly all of Reagan's problems as he's accused of the murder of John Gallaudet, the original agent on the case. Reagan spends the entire film avoiding the police as well as trying to track down the ring.

Rising somewhat above this drivel is Moroni Olsen playing a padre who's definitely not what he seems. He overacts outrageously because he knows that this isn't Citizen Kane he's doing.

I'm not sure devoted fans of the Gipper could sit through this.