The second of Ronald Reagan's Brass Bancroft Secret Service films for Warner Brothers. Again Brass must go south of the boarder, again not something I think the Secret Service is really allowed to do, though this time its just south of the Texas border, where as in the last film it was just south of California. Anyway another agent has had his cover blown so Brass is sent in to take over. A racket running a casino just south of El Paso is bleaching the money that comes in, then reprinting it as higher denominations with stolen plates, not a bad plan. Reagan goes to this casino, there is a fight and he's framed for murder, he goes on the run, and eventually he allows Mexican forces to apprehend him once the mobsters have caught on to his identity and his life is in imperilled. In Mexican custody he informs his captors that he's really a secret service agent, but its going to take a day for one of their men to get to a telegraph station and confirm with Washington. Not wanting to waist time Brass has his comic relief side kick Eddie Foy Jr. spring him from the slammer. And also there is a love interest that showes up at one point, a different love interest from the one Brass got engaged to at the end of the last film, because why care about continuity. Eventually the movie ends with a dynamiting of an old Spanish mission that peg-legged chief counterfeiter Moroni Olsen is using as his base of operations, disguised as a monk of course.
I was little surprised to hear that Reagen considered this to be the worse movie he ever made, and that he was once told by a ticket tacker at a theater playing this film that "You should be ashamed." This is not a good movie, not a lot of effort was put into the thing and in hindsight it looks even more absurd then it seemed when I watched it. I'm gonna have to give it * 1/2.
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