This Is My Affair

In 1901, under pressure to put a stop to a run of bank robberies, President William McKinley sends Lieutenant Richard L. Perry of the Navy undercover without telling anyone, not even the Secret Service. Working under the name Joe Patrick, Perry gets inside the gang in Saint Paul and grows close to Lil Duryea, who sings at the club. The trouble is that the president is the only person who knows about the mission, and if anything happens to him there is nobody left to confirm who the man actually is. William A. Seiter’s hundred minute Twentieth Century Fox production was written by Allen Rivkin and Lamar Trotti. Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck lead in their second film together, with Victor McLaglen and Brian Donlevy in support.