a5c7b9f00b For showing cowardice during a holdup, bank teller Bob Hunter is fired. He joins the Mounties and is assigned to look for those robbers. To have him work undercover, the Inspector's scheme is to have Bob supposedly kicked out of the Mounties.
I'd say that it was good to see Charles Starrett in a flick that wasn't a Western, but when all is said and done, this one pretty much follows the script of that genre. Starting out as a disgraced bank teller who failed to prevent a sixteen thousand dollar robbery, Robert Hunter (Starrett) winds up in the service of The Dominion as a Royal Mountie. You have to admit he fills out the uniform nicely, and with his good looks and broad smile, it's not a fluke that he wound up a big time matinée idol for young boys and girls alike as the Durango Kid in the Forties and Fifties.<br/><br/>This far back though, Starrett's acting, as well as everyone else in the picture, is pretty wooden. The dialog clunks along, and any number of scenes look like the characters are merely reading their lines instead of interacting with each other. But talking pictures were still a relatively new medium in the early Thirties, and I imagine just about every film felt like an experiment.<br/><br/>I'll say this though, commercial advertisers certainly got an early jump on things. Keep an eye on the owner of Winton's Hardware Store as he walks by to open up the shop. There in prominent view is a well placed sign for Coca-Cola! <br/><br/>Back to the story, Starrett's character winds up in an altercation with a fellow Mountie, revealed later as a ruse to have him go under cover to smoke out the bad guys, a gang of bank robbers masterminded by a smarmy looking Kenne Duncan. He's the 'Chief' referred to by Madigan (Eric Clavering) in that cabin meeting, passing the classic heel test by attempting to rob his own father's store. Constable Hunter not only makes the save, but gets the girl as well, the shop owner's daughter Betty (Adrienne Dore).<br/><br/>Say, I wonder, you think after they got hitched, Bob and Betty ever went back to use up that nine dollar rent money?
Undercover Men is an entertaining modern Mountie picture that plays like a B-western in disguise. Charles Starrett plays a Canadian bank clerk. When gangsters rob the bank, he is unable to fight back because his girlfriend is in the line of fire. Accused of cowardice, he leaves town and joins the Mounties. Back home, the gang is causing a reign of terror. Inspector Wheeler Oakman leads a contingent of Mounties back to the city to smash them. When a gangster assassinates one of the Mounties' undercover men, Starrett replaces him by using the old 'drummed off the force' trick. He tracks some heavy ammunition sales to a hunting lodge owned by the town's skinflint banker. His no-good son, Kenne Duncan, is the brains behind the mob. When they try to rob a payroll shipment, the gang is captured. Duncan is nabbed trying to make his getaway and Starrett gets the girl. Working from a good script by Murison Dunn, director Sam Newfield delivers a nicely constructed low budget melodrama. He puts together several effective sequences including a long subjective camera shot to mask the identity of the big boss. While Starrett's acting ability is limited; he is big, good looking and has a million dollar smile. Oakman is very good as the stern Inspector and Kenne Duncan is a surprise as the flashy villain. Shot in Brampton, Ontario; Dominion Pictures released Undercover Men in Canada and MGM handled the U.K. distribution.
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Updated: Mar 30, 2020