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if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

***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!

Nightclub crooner Dennis Morgan joins the police academy to impress pretty blonde policeman's daughter Gloria Dickson. Cop John Payne is also sweet on Gloria and, as movie luck would have it, he winds up as Morgan's trainer at the academy. Nice little B movie with a misleading title. There's no tear gas squad, although tear gas does play a part in the final minutes of the picture.Morgan's somewhat miscast but does get to sing some songs, which is primarily what they paid him for. Poor John Payne has to play O'Brien to Morgan's Cagney. Nice supporting cast includes many future TV stars: Edgar Buchanan (Petticoat Junction), William Hopper (Perry Mason), Herbert Anderson (Dennis the Menace), George Reeves and John Hamilton (Adventures of Superman). Director Terry O. Morse would go on to direct the American footage for the first Godzilla. Not a bad movie of its type and a decent way to kill an hour.

After seeing any number of films from Warner Brothers I'm convinced that several properties at once were written with James Cagney in mind. And when he said no they devolved on to lesser players in the pecking order.Case in point is this film Tear Gas Squad in which there is no such specialized squad in any police department I know. And we only see tear gas being used in the final showdown with the bad guys here. What this is all about is yet another buddy film that was probably meant for the team of Cagney and Pat O'Brien.Dennis Morgan plays a nightclub singer with not too good an opinion of cops, but joins the force any way to impress Gloria Dickson who comes from a family of them. And she's got Sergeant John Payne who is also courting her who gives Morgan a ticket and gets a lot of lip from Morgan. So when he winds up Morgan's training officer you can only imagine what follows.Which you've seen in any number of Cagney/O'Brien films all of them better than this. At least Morgan got to sing a bit. John Payne who has a few good notes in his system as well sang not a bit.Fortunately for both Morgan and Payne better films were coming along although Payne would have to move to 20th Century Fox for them.

There's a definite B-film flavor for this quickie from Warner Bros. that has DENNIS MORGAN as a nightclub singer trying to impress a girl (GLORIA DICKSON) with his impersonation as a police officer during a nightclub act. Little does he know she's from a family of officers, which is why she fails to be impressed by him.JOHN PAYNE is one of her brothers, also a policeman who knows Morgan because he gave him a traffic ticket for speeding. The story turns out to be a trifle distinguished only by a generous sampling of Irish songs by Morgan, who never sounded in better voice. Unfortunately, the story is hackneyed stuff, with Morgan deciding to actually join the police force instead of just impersonating one. Naturally, he has to shape up under Payne's leadership in training school.It's predictable nonsense with DENNIS MORGAN's way with a song being the only worthwhile reason for watching. Running less than an hour, it's a harmless programmer but easily forgotten.