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Release year: 1939

Storyline

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited into the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

Top credits

Directors

Noel M. Smith

Writers

Cast

Ronald Reagan — Lt. 'Brass' Bancroft
John Litel — Saxby
Ila Rhodes — Pamela Schuyler
James Stephenson — Jim Cameron

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Did you know

• The Corrigan mentioned by Gabby is a reference to Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan (January 22, 1907 - December 9, 1995), an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas. He earned the nickname "Wrong Way" in 1938 when after a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He was thereafter known in American culture as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.

• The IWW, or more commonly known as the Wobblies, was a worldwide leftist labor organization founded in 1905 by socialists, progressives, and anarchists. It has always been viewed with suspicion by the government and lost considerable power in the years following World War II with the Taft-Hartly Act forbidding Communist leadership of labor unions.

• "Valley Airport" was really Grand Central Air Terminal in Glendale, California.