***SPOILERS*** "Tear Gas Squad" starts off as a musical comedy but soon turns serious when night club singer Tommy McCabe's, Dennis Morgan, kid brother druggist Joe, Steve Reeves , is gunned down before his eyes by the Rock Dawson, Warren Rock, gang. It was Rock Dawson whom Joe had turned in, at gunpoint, to the police earlier in the movie when he came to his drugstore for help after being shot in the arm by the police.
Up until then Tommy who joined to police department to impress Jerry Sullivan, Gloria Dickson, who's entire family excluding Mama, Mary Gordon, are a member of the city police department but had been suspended for being a wise guy after graduation day with him being at the top of his class. Now determined to track down Joe's killers Tommy breaks all the rules and laws to get his hands on Dawson and his gang and bring them to justice. As things turn out it's Jerry's policeman suitor Sgt. Bill Morrissey, John Payne, Tommy's instructor at the police academy who ends up being kidnapped by the Dawson gang and held hostage, when the gang surrounded, at the Acme Fruit Packing Co. wear-house on the city's waterfront.
***SPOILERS*** Doing his "Spiderman" act Tommy crashes through the skylight of the wear-house and with the whole place being tear gassed by the police he not only saves Morrissey's life but also ends up getting the girl, Jerry Sullivan, as well. The movie has staring in it the future Superman, and mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, actor Steve Reeves as Joe McCabe, Tommy's kid brother, as well as his boss John Hamilton as Chief Ferris who later played Perry White the editor of the Daily Planet. Now how's that for a quinella!
Up until then Tommy who joined to police department to impress Jerry Sullivan, Gloria Dickson, who's entire family excluding Mama, Mary Gordon, are a member of the city police department but had been suspended for being a wise guy after graduation day with him being at the top of his class. Now determined to track down Joe's killers Tommy breaks all the rules and laws to get his hands on Dawson and his gang and bring them to justice. As things turn out it's Jerry's policeman suitor Sgt. Bill Morrissey, John Payne, Tommy's instructor at the police academy who ends up being kidnapped by the Dawson gang and held hostage, when the gang surrounded, at the Acme Fruit Packing Co. wear-house on the city's waterfront.
***SPOILERS*** Doing his "Spiderman" act Tommy crashes through the skylight of the wear-house and with the whole place being tear gassed by the police he not only saves Morrissey's life but also ends up getting the girl, Jerry Sullivan, as well. The movie has staring in it the future Superman, and mild mannered reporter Clark Kent, actor Steve Reeves as Joe McCabe, Tommy's kid brother, as well as his boss John Hamilton as Chief Ferris who later played Perry White the editor of the Daily Planet. Now how's that for a quinella!