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Bureau of Missing Persons

A wife's frantic search for her missing husband takes a deadly turn when she uncovers a shocking truth: he was murdered and never existed in the first place. Now, she must join forces with a clever detective to unravel the web of deceit and prove her innocence before she becomes the next vic...

Detective Butch Saunders is transferred to the Missing Persons department due to his aggressive tactics, but he sees the new assignment as a cakewalk. When a young woman, actually a fugitive wanted for her husband's murder, asks for his help finding her missing spouse, Saunders concocts a plan to capture her. He stages a fake funeral using a borrowed corpse, which lures the woman and her husband to the mortuary out of curiosity.

Info about Bureau of Missing Persons

Studio(s): First National Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

Originally Released: United States, Sep 16, 1933

Production Country: United States

Genres:Comedy, Crime, Drama