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Sleepers East (1934)
Directed by Kenneth MacKenna
Overview
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth’s drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth’s political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan’s mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Length 69 minutes
Actors
Douglas Fowley | Francis Ford | J. Carrol Naish | Preston Foster | Joseph Crehan | Wynne Gibson | Morgan Wallace | Mona Barrie | Roger Imhof | Harvey Stephens | Suzanne Kaaren | Fred 'Snowflake' Toones | Howard Lally | Marianne Edwards