Murder in the Air

Year: 1940

Runtime: 55 mins

Language: English

Director: Lewis Seiler

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A battle aboard a doomed dirigible pits Allied forces against saboteurs disrupting war shipments. A hobo’s corpse from a train wreck, with a $50,000 money belt and a circle‑arrow tattoo, marks him as a hired operative. Brass assumes his identity as Steve Coe, infiltrates the enemy ring in California, and after the widow appears, Gabby rescues him and reveals his mission: board the Navy airship Mason and destroy its secret Inertia Projector.

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