Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service
Poster of Code of the Secret Service
Directed by	Noel M. Smith
Screenplay by	William H. Moran Lee Katz Dean Riesner
Produced by	Bryan Foy Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner
Starring	Ronald Reagan Rosella Towne Eddie Foy, Jr. Moroni Olsen Edgar Edwards Jack Mower
Cinematography	Ted D. McCord
Edited by	Frederick Richards
Music by	Bernhard Kaun Max Steiner
Production company	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 27, 1939 (1939-05-27)
Running time	58 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

External videos
Original Trailer for Code of the Secret Service

Code of the Secret Service is a 1939 film directed by Noel M. Smith and starring Ronald Reagan. It is the second of four films in the U.S. Secret Service Agent Brass Bancroft series, having been preceded by Secret Service of the Air (1939) and followed by Smashing the Money Ring (1939) and Murder in the Air (1940).

The series was part of a late 1930s effort by Warner Bros. to produce films depicting law enforcement in a positive light under pressure from Homer Stille Cummings (Franklin D. Roosevelt's Attorney General) and Will H. Hays (creator of the Motion Picture Production Code, the film industry's censorship guidelines), due to the studio's part in producing early 1930s films glamorizing gangsters.^[1]

The series also enabled Warner Bros. to create Reagan's screen persona, with Reagan even showing up to the set of Code of the Secret Service and asking director Noel M. Smith, "When do I fight and whom?"^[1]