Undercover Men

Charles Starrett is a bank clerk when a gang comes in to rob the place. Although there's a gun in the vault, he doesn't go for it and the robbers get away with over $50,000. He's fired, and eventually gets the idea to join the Mounties, When his best friend there, Phillip Brandon, is killed while working undercover, he's cleared of charges, but his sergeant razzes him and he strikes him.

Starrett was a Dartmouth football player who got the acting bug and was signed by Paramount. Although he was a handsome young man, that contract didn't last long, especially after he became one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild. In 1936, he would be signed by Columbia and become one of the top Western stars, particularly after the War, when he played "The Durango Kid." With the shrinking of budgets for B westerns, however, that gig ended in 1952.

This one was shot in Toronto and surrounding country. Even with the different scenery, director Sam Newfield can direct this movie for any interest, with uninteresting camera work by Sam Leavitt, a flat cutting rate by Alex Meyers and slow dialogue that makes the actors seem a little stupid. Definitely not one I'll need to see ago.