Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

JohnHowardReid Director: LEWIS SEILER. Screenplay: Raymond Schrock. Photography: Ted McCord. Film editor: Frank Magee. Art director: Stanley Fleischer. Gowns: Howard Shoup. Music: William Lava. Dialogue director: Harry Seymour. Assistant director: William Kissell. Sound recording: Robert B. Lee. Producer: Bryan Foy.Copyright 17 April 1940 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. A Warner Brothers-First National picture. New York opening at the Palace: 3 July 1940. U.S. release: 1 June 1940. Australian release: 14 March 1940 (sic). 5,027 feet. 55 minutes.SYNOPSIS: Spies attempt to make off with the plans for the U.S. Navy's "inertia projector". COMMENT: This follow-up to Smashing the Money Ring (1939) is adequate enough as a support, although the promised sci-fi "inertia projector" (which supposedly turns off all machinery including trains, cars and street lamps) turns out to be rather tame. Never mind, Miss Lys makes an attractive femme fatale, while Mr Reagan plays the all-American hero for rather more than the part is worth. The scenes on the dirigible are worth waiting for. Mr Foy, of course, is a pain, but at least he drops out of the action for a spell. The film's chief disappointment lies in the casting of that fine actor James Stephenson who is forced to make the best of a rather silly role as chief of a foreign spy ring.

Michael_Elliott Murder in the Air (1940) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Fourth and final film in Warner's Brass Bancroft series with Ronald Reagan in the lead. This time out enemy agents are destroying various sites and now they have their eyes on destroying the entire country. Reagan goes undercover and gets inside the gang to try and stop them before more damage is done. This is probably the second best in the series (behind the third film) and fans of "B" movies will certainly have enough here to keep them entertained. The film, running just 55-minutes, makes for some nice entertainment because it throws pretty much everything in except for the kitchen sink but then again that might have ended up on the cutting room floor. The entire movie goes at a very fast pace and it leads up to a very good ending set on a Dirigible, which of course has to crash into the ocean. I wish this sequence would have gone on longer but what's here is nice. Reagan is very comfortable in the role and manages to turn in his best performance of the series. His tough act is a lot more believable here than in the previous three films and Eddie Foy, Jr. is back for comic relief. John Litel and James Stephenson co-star.

wes-connors After spies and saboteurs wreck havoc across the United States, Federal agent Ronald Reagan (as Brass Bancroft) and comic sidekick Eddie Foy Jr. (as Gabby Watters) go undercover to investigate. Secret Service head John Litel (as Saxby) gives Mr. Reagan the identity of dead spy "Steve Swenko". Reagan seeks James Stephenson (as Joe Garvey), who is being investigated for "Un-American Activities". Reagan has to deal with detectives pulling off his shirt to strip search him. Then, he must handle beautiful blonde Lya Lys (as Hilda Riker); the wife of the man he is supposed to be impersonating orders Reagan, "Talk fast and give the right answer!" Eventually, the plot leads Reagan to board "The U.S. Dirigible 'Mason'" - apparently, so that filmmakers can edit in some exciting footage of a Hindenburg-type airship. Reagan, now undercover as seaman "Steve Coe", is ordered to destroy the airship "Mason" because it carries a new U.S. Defense weapon called the "Inertia Projector". This weapon, according to the script, "makes the United States invincible in war." Who, and what, will survive "Murder in the Air"? This is a patchwork movie for the future President.*** Murder in the Air (1940) Lewis Seiler ~ Ronald Reagan, Eddie Foy Jr., John Litel

Neil Doyle The fourth in the "Brass Bancroft" series is the best. Once again, RONALD REAGAN plays the confident government man whose job it is to expose spies led by JAMES STEPHENSON, the accented villain. It has the flavor of an extended Saturday afternoon serial, the kind that movie fans came to expect as a steady diet during the '30s and '40s.All the ingredients for such an adventurous tale are here--a mysterious man with a tattoo on his arm; a ring of spies; good guys putting themselves into dangerous positions by posing as gangsters; and the inevitable conclusion with the spies efficiently disposed of by U.S. agents on their trail.And once again, one gets the impression that Ronald Reagan was indeed being groomed for stardom as an Errol Flynn type of action star in his early days. He once described himself as the "Errol Flynn of the B-films" and it's an apt description.Simplistic spy story made a year before Pearl Harbor, has its best moments when it uses actual footage from a dirigible disaster at sea with the footage blended evenly with studio scenes aboard the dirigible before it crashes. It's the last twenty minutes or so that makes the whole thing worth watching.Fortunately for Reagan, it wasn't long after this one that the studio began putting him in A-films where he eventually earned his leading man status and became a dependable fixture throughout the forties.