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Postal Inspector

  • 1936
  • Approved
  • 58min
NOTE IMDb
5,2/10
289
MA NOTE
Bela Lugosi, Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, and Michael Loring in Postal Inspector (1936)
ActionCriminalitéDrame

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.

  • Réalisation
    • Otto Brower
  • Scénario
    • Horace McCoy
    • Robert Presnell Sr.
  • Casting principal
    • Ricardo Cortez
    • Patricia Ellis
    • Michael Loring
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
    5,2/10
    289
    MA NOTE
    • Réalisation
      • Otto Brower
    • Scénario
      • Horace McCoy
      • Robert Presnell Sr.
    • Casting principal
      • Ricardo Cortez
      • Patricia Ellis
      • Michael Loring
    • 17avis d'utilisateurs
    • 6avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
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    Rôles principaux54

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    Ricardo Cortez
    Ricardo Cortez
    • Inspector Bill Davis
    Patricia Ellis
    Patricia Ellis
    • Connie Larrimore
    Michael Loring
    Michael Loring
    • Charlie Davis
    Bela Lugosi
    Bela Lugosi
    • Gregory Benez
    Wallis Clark
    Wallis Clark
    • Inspector Gil Pottle
    Arthur Loft
    Arthur Loft
    • Inspector Gene Richards
    David Oliver
    David Oliver
    • 'Butch'
    Guy Usher
    Guy Usher
    • Evans
    Bill Burrud
    Bill Burrud
    • Billy
    • (as Billy Burrud)
    Harry Beresford
    Harry Beresford
    • Ritter
    Spencer Charters
    Spencer Charters
    • Grumpy
    Harry Antrim
    Harry Antrim
    • Postmaster
    • (non crédité)
    Gertrude Astor
    Gertrude Astor
    • Woman with Drumsticks
    • (non crédité)
    James Blaine
    James Blaine
    • Police Broadcaster
    • (non crédité)
    Don Brodie
    Don Brodie
    • Reporter
    • (non crédité)
    Jack Byron
    • Henchman-Driver
    • (non crédité)
    Mary Carr
    Mary Carr
    • Mrs. John Mead
    • (non crédité)
    Burr Caruth
    • Postmaster Long
    • (non crédité)
    • Réalisation
      • Otto Brower
    • Scénario
      • Horace McCoy
      • Robert Presnell Sr.
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    • Production, box office et plus encore chez IMDbPro

    Avis des utilisateurs17

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    reptilicus

    One era ending, another one soon to begin.

    The British Board of Film Certifiers banned Universal's THE RAVEN as "overly brutal and sadistic" and gave THE INVISIBLE RAY an A (for Adults Only) Certificate. This pretty much ended the genre that we now call Universal's "Golden Age". So where did this leave its top terror stars, Boris and Bela? For awhile, nowhere! Boris ended up playing a kindly old grandfather type in NIGHT KEY (1937) and Bela ended up in the musical comedy/drama playing a Mexican nightclub owner! Ricardo Cortez (whose real name was Jack Kranz) plays the title role and much of the movies 58 minute running time shows him dealing with people who have been the victims of mail fraud. This provides a lot of intentional humour. Cortez's brother is a Treasury officer in charge of getting worn out bills back to Washington. The girl he is in love with sings in Lugosi's nightclub and lets slip a casual comment that $3 million in old bills will soon go out of the local bank. Bela is in debt to a gagnster and decides to steal the shipment. As if that were not bad enough the town is threatened by a flood! Republic would take that plot and stretch it out for a 12 chapter serial so believe me this film will be long on action. Bela played a similar character in the 1930 film WILD COMPANY. He is not menacing at all until the last 10 minutes of the film when he becomes a crook. Ricardo Cortez had worked with D.W. Griffith (THE SORROWS OF SATAN, 1926) and had been the first actor to play Sam Spade (THE MALTESE FALCON, 1931). Watch the supporting cast for Guy Usher, who would face Lugosi on less equal terms in THE DEVIL BAT (1942) and Hattie McDaniel who had already costarred with Bela in MURDER BY TELEVISION (1935) and would go on to appear in GONE WITH THE WIND (1939). The terror genre would start up again within 3 years but the old days were gone for good. This is still a fun film to watch even if it is just to see Bela in a relatively normal character role.
    6malcolm-68

    Postal Inspector

    This was long thought to be a lost film, but it has been resurrected using a number of different prints so quality varies, but entertainment is still consistent. This is an odd film being a mixture of genres namely thriller,disaster, musical and quasi-documentary about the post office. A number of crimes involving the post office are shown mainly tragic, but a couple are very funny. Eventually it centres on a train robbery of old banknotes en route to the federal mint. Ricardo Cortez is all suave self assurance as the leading detective assigned to the case, while Patricia Ellis is drop dead gorgeous as a chanteuse who may be involved with the robbery. Bela Lugosi as a club owner with links to a gambling syndicate only has a small role. Last part of the film takes place in a flood with stock footage lifted from the Johnstown flood interspersed with new studio shot scenes which blend quite well. Some may dislike the jingoistic tone of the film regarding the post office, but the movie fairly zips along and the denouement is exciting.
    6djpass-1

    Interesting in several ways

    At heart, this is a 1930's B movie with a fair story and some interesting aspects. There are the usual characters: the straight-laced older brother, the reckless younger brother, the beautiful nightclub singer, and the criminal nightclub owner--plus an array or unnecessary comic relief characters.

    What sets it apart is that it is part propaganda for the U.S. Post Office Department (as there were similar films promoting the FBI, Coast Guard, etc.) Cortez (the postal inspector) and Lugosi (the nightclub owner), not the most subtle of actors, are pretty restrained here.

    Also interesting is that about half the movie takes place during a disastrous flood (which doesn't affect the electrical system, it seems) and includes some interesting stock footage of floods from the period. So instead of ending with a car chase, there is boat chase through flooded city streets. I was left wondering how those scenes were filmed--did Universal really flood streetscapes for a B movie? However it was done, it looks realistic.

    All in all, worth watching if you are a fan of 1930's movies.
    6bkoganbing

    Bela the mobster

    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.
    7MikeMagi

    The rains came...

    I doubt that any movie ever made better use of stock footage of floods than "Postal Inspector." Every time the tale sags -- or more accurately sogs -- it's back to some unfortunate town where the river is rising, the dam done burst, homes are being washed away and people are trudging through muck and mire (not to be confused with the vaudeville act of the same name,) trying to escape the deluge. The big chase scene even replaces cars and horses with speedboats. The plot centers on Bela Lugosi as a night club owner, drowning in debt, who tries to steal $3 million in old bills being transported by the US Post Office. Fortunately, Ricardo Cortez is there to sink him, aided by Patricia Ellis as a night club singer who manages to warble a few Frank Loesser tunes before the water rises. It's actually not a bad little thriller and manages to float along in a fast-moving 58 minutes.

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    • Anecdotes
      Film debut of Frank Wilcox (uncredited).
    • Connexions
      Referenced in DVD/Lazerdisc/VHS collection 2016 (2016)
    • Bandes originales
      Hot Towel
      (uncredited)

      Music by Irving Actman

      Lyrics by Frank Loesser

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    • Date de sortie
      • 16 août 1936 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • Överfallet vid 14:e gatan
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, Californie, États-Unis
    • Société de production
      • Universal Pictures
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    • Durée
      • 58min
    • Couleur
      • Black and White
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.37 : 1

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