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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
Directed by Eugene Forde
Overview
Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis’ Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.
Length 77 minutes
Actors
Lloyd Nolan | Marjorie Weaver | Joan Valerie | Walter Abel | Elizabeth Patterson | Donald MacBride | Douglass Dumbrille | Clarence Kolb | George Meeker | Charles Coleman | Adrian Morris | Robert Emmett Keane | Frank Orth | Irving Bacon | Don Brodie | Bess Flowers | Jimmy Aubrey | Paul E. Burns | James Conaty | Robert Conway | Sayre Dearing | Ralph Dunn | Fern Emmett | Dick French | Harold Goodwin | Dick Gordon | Sherry Hall | Paul Kruger | Hamilton MacFadden | Tony Martelli | Major McBride | Harold Miller | Frank Mills | Edmund Mortimer | Field Norton | Paddy O'Flynn | James Pierce | Dick Rich | Jack Richardson | Cyril Ring | Bob Rose | S.S. Simon | Larry Steers