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The Secret Service protects the President and combats the forgery of money. Only that. It does not protect military secrets.

I love these stories where there is a new weapon critical for national defense but the government leaves it badly (or not at all) protected for hours on end, until the bad guys do their bad deeds. The secret being "protected" appears here as a bunch of wrinkled papers left carelessly on a desk. (Invariably in these Z quality films, the plans never look like large rolls of engineering papers but just A4 sheets.) Even after those plans were stolen more valuable data was just kept in a desk drawer. Still no safe.

The acting, the slow delivery of lines, the exaggerated grimaces combine with ridiculous lines to make this disaster of a movie. I am giving it a second point just in case this was intended as a total comedy. But the two good-for-nothing guards the doctor hired are the only element to suggest that the makers of this catastrophe were aware of how ridiculous everything is.

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Sheila Bromley in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

Sheila Bromley, Lloyd Hughes, Jack Mulhall, and Forrest Taylor in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

Sheila Bromley, Lloyd Hughes, and Jack Mulhall in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

Sheila Bromley, John Elliott, and Lloyd Hughes in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

Sheila Bromley, John Elliott, Lloyd Hughes, Fuzzy Knight, Miki Morita, Jack Mulhall, Syd Saylor, and Forrest Taylor in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

Lloyd Hughes, Fuzzy Knight, Jack Mulhall, and Forrest Taylor in Kelly of the Secret Service (1936)

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