The earliest documented telecasts of this film took place in Atlanta Tuesday 27 September 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), in New York City Tuesday 4 October 1949 on the DuMont Television Network's WABD (Channel 5), and in Salt Lake City Sunday 13 November 1949 on KDYL (Channel 4).
When this film was re-titled 'Racketeers' and re-released theatrically by Guaranteed Pictures Corporation in 1947, it was most frequently shown in tandem with 'Call It Murder.' the re-titled re-release of Midnight (1934).
The Variety reviewer noted that the subject of The People's Enemy (1935) "stems from a timely topic, the heat that the government has been bringing on underworld big-shots [such as Al Capone] via the income tax law."