Welcome to AirNenky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Films can be magical.

Think of the movies that influenced aspiring filmmakers.

From great white sharks off the coast of New England to dinosaurs rampaging across

the Costa Rican island, two hours in a darkened theater can be life-changing.

The films with this kind of power tend to be the ones with the best of lists, Casa Blanca,

Jaws, Citizen Kane, Taxi Driver, movies with one heck of a story to tell.

And then there's 1939's Code of the Secret Service.

It certainly was a movie, just not a great one, at least according to the film Star,

an actor named Ronald Reagan.

Before he became the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan was an entertainer,

starring in dozens of films, including Westerns and dramas.

One series had Reagan play in a character named Lieutenant Brass Bancoft, a former military

pilot who joined the Secret Service to take down criminals.

The first installment in the franchise, the 1939's Secret Service of the Air, was a modest

hit.

Its success pushed the studio to greenlight three more sequels over the next year.

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