Secret Service Investigator (1948) DVD-R

Starring Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco, June Storey,
Trevor Bardette
Directed by R.G. Springsteen

Print: black/white
Runtime: 60 min.
Genre: drama
Print Quality: B

An especially good casts helps lift Republic's Secret Service Investigator
well above the norm. Lloyd Bridges plays disillusioned ex-GI Steve
Mallory, who falls in with a gang of wily crooks. Convincing Mallory that
they're U.S. secret service agents, the villains persuade our hero to help
them in a phony rare-coin scheme. When he realizes he's being
flim-flammed, Mallory risks his neck by agreeing to work as a double
agent for the real Feds. The film is effortlessly stolen by George Zucco as
Otto Dagoff, the erudite but slimy head of the fake-coin racket. In case
there's any question that Secret Service Investigator is a Republic film,
the presence of Roy Barcroft as one of the heavies should remove all
doubt.