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Holt of the Secret Sevice

USA 1941
produced by
Columbia
directed by James W. Horne
starring Jack Holt, Evelyn Brent, C. Montague Shaw, Tristram Coffin, John Ward, Ted Adams, Joe McGuinn, Edward Hearn, Ray Parsons, Jack Cheatham, Stanley Blystone, George Chesebro, Buddy Roosevelt, Dale Van Sickel, Stanley Price, Harry Harvey, Franklyn Farnum
written by Basil Dickey, Wyndham Gittens, George H. Plympton, music by Lee Zahler

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review by
Mike Haberfelner

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When John Severn (Ray Parsons), the National Mint's best engraver, is kidnapped & forced to forge money for some mysterious gang, the Secret Service decide to have their top man, Holt (Jack Holt) under the alias of ruthless gangster Nick Farrell, infiltrate the gang.That doesn't work out quite as well though when the gangster whom he has hooked up with, Crimp Evans (Joe McGuinn) gets caught by the police. So Holt has to be put into jail too, & let his wife (actually a fellow agent) Kay (Evelyn Brent) spring them from jail.

But on the way to the gang's hideout, Crimp grows wise to Holt & Holt has to kill him in some rapids (or so he thinks), but somehow, when he arrives at the gang's hideout, he gets stuck with Kay, & to not draw any suspicion, they put on a bickering couple-act in front of gangleader Valdin (Tristram Coffin) & his men, who grow more & more suspicious, which Holt usually counters with a fistfight, successfully putting up a tough guy act.

Eventually though, the hideout is raided by the police & the engraver freed, but Valden & a few others manage to escape, & it is decided to not blow Holt's cover but equip him with some sought after engraving plates & try to hook up witht he gang again, to not only catch Valden & company but also the gang's real boss ...

Holt manages to infiltrate the gang again alright, but by now Crimp has resurfaced, very much alive, & whuile he no longer thinks Holt is a federal agent, he still wants to kill him & get his hands on the plates.

Holt meanwhile is presented with the boss of the gang, Quist (Ted Adams), who is really a stand-in for the gang's real boss, Lucky Arnold (John Ward), who successfully plays the role of a clumsy gambler.

Soon everybody, including Quist, Arnold, Crimp, Holt & Kay', get their hands on the plates for some time, with the action shifting first to urban settings, later to the gambling ship Adventure & finally to Capas Island, a tropical paradise, where Garrity (Stanley Blystone), an unscrupulous landowner is thrown into the mix as well when he learns about the plates, & will stop at nothing to get them, he even stages a natives' revolt to serve his own ends ...

In the end though, one of Garrity's henchmen, Rankin (George Chesebro) is overcome by his conscience (as he sees Garrity even slaughtering the natives who help him) & informs the rightful gouvernor of Capas Island. Everything is resolved when the gangsters accidently blow up the Adventure, the ship they came with, while the gouvernor sends his troops to arrest the gangsters & Garrity & his men alike.

Kay & Holt though might marry soon, but this time for real ...

 

Not that the story of this serial would be particularly new ot offer anything that hasn't been shown in any number of other serials, but Jack Holt's porttrayal of the "plenty tough" guy, who answers everything with a fistfight (& he's the good guy !) does give Holt of the Secret Service a welcome momentum not often found even within the usually fast-moving serial world, & Evelyn Brent as his fast-talking, sharp-tongued pretend wife does give perfect support.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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