- User Rating 5 votes
- Critics Rating 1 critics
- Your Rating
- Release Date: 1940
- Runtime: 55 min
- Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
- Starring: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson ... see all
- Director: Lewis Seiler
- Plot: Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a... Read more
User Reviews
President Brass Bancroft....I Like It......
Dec 07, 2007
lotus07 - imdb.com
Dec 07, 2007lotus07 - imdb.com
SYNOPSIS: Ronald Reagan, G-Men, Espionage, Airplanes....that about sums it up.CONCEPT IN RELATION TO THE VIEWER: American Government = Good / Foreigners = Bad. An entertaining propaganda film for its day. Supposedly, the 3rd in a series of G-Men pictures that... Full review
A nice conclusion to the four Secret Service films
Sep 16, 2007
planktonrules - imdb.com
Sep 16, 2007planktonrules - imdb.com
Starting with SECRET SERVICE OF THE AIR (1938), Ronald Reagan made four B-movie series film with the character of "Brass Bancroft". I have seen all but SMASHING THE MONEY RING. The first film, despite its very low budget and modest... Full review
Don't blame Reagan for this movie's failings
Jul 31, 2007
fedya-1 - imdb.com
Jul 31, 2007fedya-1 - imdb.com
Ronald Reagan the actor is often panned, largely in my opinion because of his politics. Those who would denigrate his acting career should watch a movie like "Murder in the Air". It was designed as a B-movie, and barely reaches... Full review
Interesting spy thriller
Feb 07, 2006
Chris Gaskin - imdb.com
Feb 07, 2006Chris Gaskin - imdb.com
Murder In the Air was the fourth movie to star future President Ronald Reagan as agent Ross Bancroft. This is at present the only one of this series I've seen and was rather impressed.A man with a tattoo of a... Full review
A Film I Wish Was Available
Nov 27, 2004
theowinthrop - imdb.com
Nov 27, 2004theowinthrop - imdb.com
President Ronald Reagan has been accused of being a second rate actor, mostly due to his appearance in BEDTIME FOR BONZO. However he actually appeared (albeit in many supporting roles) in respectable, even good films. Early in his career he... Full review
How Ronald Reagan learned to love the Star Wars defense
Jun 27, 2003
Ardith Fairchild - imdb.com
Jun 27, 2003Ardith Fairchild - imdb.com
This movie is notable for what it wrought 40 years later. In the film, Reagan's character -- Brass Bancroft -- is a government "T"-man who is tasked to protect a new secret weapon called the Inertia Protector, which can destroy... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Apr 23, 1987The New York Times
The program, brightened with old movie and news-film clips, is even entertaining.
Similarly, the program - the executive producer was Jeff Gralnick -gives us a feeling that Mr. Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in 1980 mostly on a smile and a shoeshine.
... Full Review
News
In 1940, B-actor Ronald Reagan was toiling at Warner Bros., where he starred in one of a series of B-adventure flicks featuring a Secret Service agent named Brass Bancroft (!). ... Full Article