Review of Code Two

Code Two (1953)
7/10
Take off those white suites! They make perfect targets!
25 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
(Some Spoilers) Making the grade as LAPD motorcycle policemen the "Three Musketeer" biker cops Chuck Russ & Harry, Ralph Meeker Robert Horton & Jeff Richards, where now well on their way to keep he peace on the streets and highways of L.A County.

Eariler a rivalry developed between Chuck & Harry when the third member of the trio's, Russ, pretty sister-in-law Jane Anderson, Elaine Stewart, dropped the sure of himself, with women, Chuck for the shy and meekly Harry to be her partner at the LAPD police biker graduation dance. Even though she promised, or so he thought, that she'll be Chuck's date at the dance. Whatever falling out Chuck had with the totally innocent Harry, whom Jane was using to get under Chuck's skin, soon ended with Harry losing his life when he was both knocked out and run over by a pair of cattle rustling truckers whom he stopped for running a red light in the city.

Feeling guilty and responsible for his friend's Harry's death in that it was his not Harry's call to ticket the tuckers, not knowing at the time that they were rustling cattle, Chuck took it upon himself to track them and their cattle rustling gang members down and bring them to justice. Going undercover as a renegade biker much like Marlon Brando's Johnny in the movie "The Wild One" Chuck tracks the cattle rustlers down outside L.A city limits where their in the process of slaughtering for market their ill gotten gains the stolen cattle. Trying to act cool and nonchalant when he's caught by the cattle rustling gang Chuck's cover is blown when his LAPD issued motorcycle is spotted hidden by one of the gang members!

It's then that Chuck takes matters into his own hands and ends up getting shot twice for it but in the end he puts the guy-William Campbell-who murdered his friend in a boiling pit of quicklime, with a judo flip, when he tried to do the same to him. Now fighting for his life Chuck, with two bullets drilled into him, holds off the rest of the gang until help arrives! Chuck's former LAPD drill instructor, who was one of those LAPD cops who came to his rescue, Jumbo Culdane (Keenen Wynn) who thought of him to be a wise guy who disliked taking orders soon realized that his instincts was right on about the now straight as an arrow Chuck. All he needed was to be shown the errors of his way and in him knowing them Chuck and only Chuck thus ended up correcting them.
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