***SPOILERS***Totally ridicules film about nuclear espionage involving a group of mixed nuts trying to find a secret map that discloses the largest uranium deposits on earth. That's somewhere off a sleepy lagoon in the South Pacific once held by the Japanese government. It's former OSS agent and now commercial pilot "Handsome Hobe" Carrington, Alan Curtis, who gets himself involved in this mess by flaying a group of people to the Desert Inn in scenic Death Valley. It's there that "Hobe" is contacted by his former boss OSS big shot and now FBI secret agent Bob Donovan, Jack Holt, who fills him in on what he's to do in preventing this group of global racketeers from getting their hands on a secret map that will lead them to the uranium deposit.
The movie goes on endlessly with "Hobe" getting in and out of one mess after another as well as getting romantically involved with two of the women members of the group Catherine Forrest, Evelyn Ankers, and the mysterious Countess, from parts unknown, Maria de Fresca, Micheline Cheirel. It's on his flight back to Las Vegas that "Hobe" finally discovers whet's going on with his passengers minus Tom Walker,Gorden Richards, who was murdered back at the desert inn but seems too, with him getting his head bashed in twice, uninterested and just wants to get a good night sleep and forget about the entire matter.
***SPOILERS*** Still with Agent Donovan urging him on "Hobe" does finally get to the bottom of this atomic spy conspiracy only after the top man Jerome Cowan, Gerald Porter, who was in fact working for the Japanese during WWII as a spy tried to murder him when he got too close to the truth. Which was of all things at a stable where fellow spy and horse breeder Joseph Ruehl,Michael Visaroff, kept his killer stallion whom he used to do his dirty work for. Check out silent movie cowboy sensation Hoot Gibson, no relation to as far as I could see to Mel, as the Death Valley County Sheriff Bradley.
The movie goes on endlessly with "Hobe" getting in and out of one mess after another as well as getting romantically involved with two of the women members of the group Catherine Forrest, Evelyn Ankers, and the mysterious Countess, from parts unknown, Maria de Fresca, Micheline Cheirel. It's on his flight back to Las Vegas that "Hobe" finally discovers whet's going on with his passengers minus Tom Walker,Gorden Richards, who was murdered back at the desert inn but seems too, with him getting his head bashed in twice, uninterested and just wants to get a good night sleep and forget about the entire matter.
***SPOILERS*** Still with Agent Donovan urging him on "Hobe" does finally get to the bottom of this atomic spy conspiracy only after the top man Jerome Cowan, Gerald Porter, who was in fact working for the Japanese during WWII as a spy tried to murder him when he got too close to the truth. Which was of all things at a stable where fellow spy and horse breeder Joseph Ruehl,Michael Visaroff, kept his killer stallion whom he used to do his dirty work for. Check out silent movie cowboy sensation Hoot Gibson, no relation to as far as I could see to Mel, as the Death Valley County Sheriff Bradley.