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ActionYear1936Duration1h 6mIMDb6.0

Federal Offense

ActionAdventureComedy

Postal Investigators Tom and Doris follow a trail from a mail robbery on the East Coast to Los Angeles using a letter sent by General Delivery to "Jane Turner". When the letter (with loads of cash in it) is picked up by a woman whose name is also Jane Turner, both the cops and the robbers are on her trail.

Trailer

Cast

EK

Edward Killy

Director

Lee Tracy

Tom Mallory

Gloria Stuart

Doris Martin

AS

Ann Shepherd

Jane Turner

John McGuire

Jerry Turner

Frank M. Thomas

Banks

Paul Guilfoyle

Phil Crowley

Irene Franklin

Ruby Winston

Patricia Wilder

Babe

Barbara Pepper

Marge Sanders - Posing as Jane Turner

Willard Robertson

Walter Davies

Alexander Cross

Eddie Parsons

Jay Eaton

Extra in Elevator

Dick Elliott

Arizona Sheepman

Dot Farley

Landlady

Paul Fix

Crowley's Henchman

Bess Flowers

Postal Clerk

DG

Duke Green

Henchman

Jane Hamilton

Davies' Secretary

JT

John Twist

Writer

EL

Edmund L. Hartmann

Writer

JK

Julius Klein

Writer

Comments

4 Comments

ARM WCMay 29, 2023

source: Federal Offense

mankrankNov 16, 2022

Wanted! Jane Turner

Houray Smiley BaNov 16, 2022

In "Wanted! Jane Turner", Lee Tracy plays a rather typical sort of character. He's brash, fast-talking and full of himself. Often this means he is playing a reporter but here he's a postal inspector. He's assisted with a female postal inspector (Gloria Stuart) and they and their fellow inspectors deal with several cases. The most important one is tracking down a crook who committed a deadly robbery of a mail truck (Paul Guilfoyle). This is a very well made and enjoyable B-movie...the type Tracy made often in the 1930s...but still well worth seeing. The writing is very good for a B and the story is told economically and well.

mootsamNov 16, 2022

Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart are a couple of Postal Inspectors. They're following the trail of a major postal robbery, which has been remailed to "Jane Turner" at a city's general post office. When some really named Jane Turner (actress Ann Shepherd) picks it up, the situation goes all pear-shaped, with Paul Guilfoyle willing to kill anyone who stands in the way of his pay-off, even Frank Yaconelli, who keeps showing up with a different bunch of dogs. It's a nice adventure-romance-thriller with a pleasant screwball edge, thanks to some fresh performances by Lee Tracy -- who must have been relieved not to be playing a news reporter -- and Gloria Stuart. Director Edward Killy may have been more accustomed to to being an assistant director on some distinguished projects, but with a fine cast, he just had to make sure they stood in the right place and then turn them loose. With Barbara Pepper, Dick Elliott, and the ubiquitous Queen of the Dress Extras, Bess Flowers.

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