Ajouter une intrigue dans votre languePostal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Bill Burrud
- Billy
- (as Billy Burrud)
Harry Antrim
- Postmaster
- (uncredited)
Gertrude Astor
- Woman with Drumsticks
- (uncredited)
James Blaine
- Police Broadcaster
- (uncredited)
Don Brodie
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Jack Byron
- Henchman-Driver
- (uncredited)
Mary Carr
- Mrs. John Mead
- (uncredited)
Burr Caruth
- Postmaster Long
- (uncredited)
Histoire
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesFilm debut of Frank Wilcox (uncredited).
- ConnexionsReferenced in Madness & Mayhem - Columbia Horror in the 1930's & 1940's (2023)
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1936's "Postal Inspector" appeared to serve several purposes for cash strapped Universal following the March 1936 ouster of the extravagant Laemmles: a Warners-style glorification of a rarely spotlighted branch of government, a vehicle cheaply built around newly shot stock footage of heavy flooding in Pittsburgh PA, and a way to fulfill their three picture contract with Bela Lugosi, having failed to use him on "Dracula's Daughter" or a fourth pairing with Boris Karloff (they would finish Karloff's deal in Feb. 1937 with "Night Key"). Not only that, but this innocuous programmer also had the audacity to feature Patricia Ellis as Connie Larrimore belting out a whopping four songs by the film's midpoint, making for an awkward musical enabling her songbird to trill at the nightclub owned by Lugosi's Gregory Benez, his kindly nature hiding a dark secret of being heavily in debt to an impatient loan shark who has already murdered a previous client. The plot finally settles in at the 40 minute mark, as Benez and his confederates choose to rob a shipment of $3 million worth of retired currency (the driver a fatal casualty), a crime that could be pinned on Charlie Davis (Michael Loring), brother of Postal Inspector Bill Davis (Ricardo Cortez), because his car was used by the thieves. Severe flooding in Milltown finds cops and robbers engaging in a speedboat chase until the villains are apprehended and Charlie is free to wed childhood sweetheart Connie. More romantic trifle than serious drama, the daily activities in the inspector's office offering some novelty as many people are defrauded through the mail, basically those who can least afford it. Offbeat enough to still provide light entertainment as an hour long programmer, but little material for Lugosiphiles, 4th billed Bela on screen for barely 7 minutes in a bland role that still shows he was capable of playing a character without any sinister shadings, the main reason for film buffs to seek out after missing in action for decades.
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- kevinolzak
- 27 juill. 2021
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- Durée58 minutes
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By what name was Postal Inspector (1936) officially released in Canada in English?
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