- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Release: 1936-04-14
- Director: Sam Newfield
- Writers: Barry Barringer , Robert Ellis
- Language: English
- Stars: William Boyd , Irene Ware , Irene Ware , Don Alvarado , Lenita Lane , George Cooper , Charles A. Browne , Hayden Stevenson , Lynton Brent , Kernan Cripps , Dick Curtis
- Runtime: 59 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Federal Agent , Mystiki ypiresia (Greece) , Federal Agent (United States of America) , A Fórmula da Morte (Brazil)
- Plot: A reclusive American scientist, Sanderson, is working on an explosive capable of destroying the world, and a foreign spy-ring is after the formula. Federal agent Jack Lynch, who has been working on the case is murdered and his best friend, Bob Woods, heads west to investigate. A woman, searching Lynch's room, flees when Bob and another agent, Wilson, arrive. From Dictaphone reports, Bob learns that Armand Recard, an international spy-for-hire, working with his wife, Vilma and Helen, the woman who was searching Lynch's room, is about to acquire the formula. Wilson is also murdered and Bob pursues the case while learning something he didn't know about Helen, the mystery woman, and also falls into the hands of a sadist named Mullins.
- IMDB:tt0027613
Federal Agent Cast · · · ALL
Sam Newfield
Director
William Boyd
Bob Woods
Irene Ware
Helen Lynch / Helen Gray
Don Alvarado
Armand Recard
Lenita Lane
Vilma Kantos Recard
George Cooper
Agent Wilson
Charles A. Browne
Mullins
Hayden Stevenson
Federal Bureau Chief