On TCM On 9/3/2016


Code of the Secret Service will be shown on TCM tomorrow morning at 845AM central time.

Ronald Reagan plays LT. Brass Bancroft.

Try to say "Brass Bancroft" five times real fast.

John Gallaudet plays Dan Crockett. He later played a judge in 20 Perry Mason episodes on TV.

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I watch any and all movies I come across starring certain actors; Ronald Reagan is one of those actors and this is one of those movies. It's a short, small-budget movie but I found it entertaining, effective, and worth watching. There are plenty of action scenes; the story is good, the plot makes sense, and it has a good ending.

I love when criminals turn on each other and then the ones remaining die in a fiery crash. It means no tax payer dollars will ever be spent to feed, house, defend, or care for any of them; nice! With the whole gang gone, their evil enterprise also ceases to exist.

After watching the movie, I checked these boards and noticed a new Goof I could add and a lot of interesting Trivia associated with the movie that I hadn't known. What's not to love? My favorite bit of Trivia is how the Secret Service agent who saved Reagan's life, after the lunatic shot him, had been inspired to become an agent when, at the age of twelve, he saw this movie. Wow!

If true, it's an amazing full-circle moment; especially if Reagan really didn't like the movie, had never seen it, and, with the director, had deliberately set out to make a bad movie in retaliation to a dispute with the producer. Reagan must have really been a lucky man; who could ever have imagined that kind of a connection?


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