Sleepers West
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Film series Michael Shayne Series Duration Language English | 6.8/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date March 14, 1941 (1941-03-14) Based on Sleepers East1933 novel by Frederick Nebel Writer Lou Breslow (screen play), Stanley Rauh (screen play), Frederick Nebel (based on a novel by), Brett Halliday (character created by) Cast (Michael Shayne), (Kay Bentley), (Helen Carlson), (Everett Jason), (George Trautwein), (Carl Izzard) Similar movies Dressed to Kill , Time To Kill , Resurrection , Summertime Killer , I, the Jury , The Maltese Falcon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sleepers West is a 1941 drama film directed by Eugene Forde, starring Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari.
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This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne series was a remake of the 1932 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East from the novel Sleepers East (1933) by Frederick Nebel. The film Michael Shayne - Private Detective (1940) was the first in a series of 12 films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox and picked up by PRC. In the PRC series, Hugh Beaumont played Shayne.
Plot summary
Shadowed by persistent girl reporter Kay Bentley (Lynn Bari), private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) tries his best to secretly escort murder-trial witness Helen Carlson (Mary Beth Hughes) by train from Denver to San Francisco.
Helen's testimony will free a man falsely accused of murder, which will also effectively destroy the election chances of a machine politician.
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References
Sleepers West WikipediaSleepers West IMDb Sleepers West themoviedb.org