Code of the Secret Service
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Director Noel M. Smith Music director Max Steiner Country United States | 4.8/10 IMDb Genre Action, Crime, Drama Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 27, 1939 (1939-05-27) Writer Lee Katz (original screen play), Dean Riesner (original screen play), W.H. Moran (based upon material compiled by: ex-chief of the U.S. Secret Service) Producers Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Bryan Foy Cast Ronald Reagan (Lt. Brass Bancroft), Rosella Towne (Elaine), Eddie Foy Jr. (Gabby), Moroni Olsen (The friar), Edgar Edwards (Ross), Jack Mower (Decker)Similar movies Ronald Reagan and Rosella Towne appear in Code of the Secret Service and Secret Service of the Air | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Code of the secret service 1939 ronald reagan
Code of the Secret Service is a 1939 film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Ronald Reagan. It is the second of four films in the U.S. Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft series, having been preceded by Secret Service of the Air (1939) and followed by Smashing the Money Ring (1939) and Murder in the Air (1940).
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- Code of the secret service 1939 ronald reagan
- The little known story of code of the secret service 1939
- Plot
- Cast
- Reception
- Ronald Reagan assassination attempt
- References
The series was part of a late 1930s effort by Warner Bros. to produce films depicting law enforcement in a positive light under pressure from Homer Stille Cummings (Franklin D. Roosevelt's Attorney General) and Will H. Hays (creator of the Motion Picture Production Code, the movie industry's censorship guidelines), due to the studio's part in producing early 1930s films glamorizing gangsters.
The series also enabled Warner Bros. to create Reagan's screen persona, with Reagan even showing up to the set of Code of the Secret Service and asking director Noel M. Smith, "When do I fight and whom?"
The little known story of code of the secret service 1939
Plot
United States Secret Service Lieutenant Brass Bancroft (Ronald Reagan) and his partner, Gabby Watters (Eddie Foy, Jr., producer Bryan Foy's brother), seek engraving plates stolen from the U.S. Treasury Department, and the investigation leads Bancroft and Watters to pursue a counterfeiting ring in Mexico. Along the way, Bancroft is falsely blamed for the death of a fellow Secret Service agent, escapes from jail, captures the leader of the counterfeiting ring, and wins the heart of his love interest, Elaine (Rosella Towne).
Cast
The cast included:
Reception
Reagan called Code of the Secret Service "the worst picture I ever made" and commented on it, "never has an egg of such dimensions been laid." Producer Bryan Foy attempted to shelve the film. Warner Bros. refused to do so, but did agree to not release it in Los Angeles. Commenting on the film, a ticket taker at a movie theater in another city reportedly told Reagan, "You should be ashamed."
In a 1939 review, the Calgary Herald called the movie "quite far-fetched in places and not very interesting as a whole."
Ronald Reagan assassination attempt
After seeing the movie repeatedly as a child, Jerry Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service. Parr would go on to save the life of the President of the United States in a 1981 assassination attempt. The President was Ronald Reagan, the star of Code of the Secret Service.
References
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