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Cast
| Credited cast: | |||
| Ricardo Cortez | ... | Inspector Bill Davis | |
| Patricia Ellis | ... | Connie Larrimore | |
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Michael Loring | ... | Charlie Davis |
| Bela Lugosi | ... | Gregory Benez | |
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Wallis Clark | ... | Inspector Gil Pottle |
| Arthur Loft | ... | Inspector Gene Richards | |
| David Oliver | ... | 'Butch' | |
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Guy Usher | ... | Evans |
| Bill Burrud | ... | Billy, The Boy (as Billy Burrud) | |
| Harry Beresford | ... | Ritter | |
| Spencer Charters | ... | Grumpy | |
| Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Alfonso Corelli | ... | Man calming crowd in night club |
| Frank Wilcox | ... | Postmaster General | |
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Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
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The Daring Exploits of Secret Agents of the Mail Service!Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
16 August 1936 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Inspetor Postal See more »Company Credits
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Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)Color:
Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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(uncredited)
Music by Irving Actman
Lyrics by Frank Loesser
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Before seeing this the only other film I ever saw dealing with the Post Office police was a very good Alan Ladd noir film called Appointment With Danger where Ladd like Ricardo Cortez here plays a Post Office cop. Postal Inspector does not have the really good plot the Ladd film has but it's good enough and it has some nice action sequences involving a flood that spoils plans for the good guys and bad guys alike.
Bela Lugosi plays a nightclub owner who doubles as the boss of a gang and he's got a pretty good scheme involving the robbery of a shipment of old and soon to be retired currency being shipped by mail. He carries it off, but the flash flood interrupts his plans.
Patricia Ellis plays a nightclub singer and Michael Loring, Cortez's brother who get innocently into a jackpot in the robbery as he's suspected of being an inside man.
Postal Inspector has a nice action climax involving a chase with outboard motorboats through flooded. And in the role of the nightclub racketeer owner provided a nice change of pace for Bela Lugosi not playing a mad scientist or an inhuman fiend.