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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)

ALL 12/19/1940 (en) Comedy, Mystery 77 Min
  • Release
    12/19/1940
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Rotten tomato
    65%
  • Original title
    Michael Shayne: Private Detective
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Eugene Forde

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Lloyd Nolan

    Michael Shayne

  2. Marjorie Weaver

    Phyllis Brighton

  3. Joan Valerie

    Marsha Gordon

  4. Walter Abel

    Elliott Thomas

  5. Elizabeth Patterson

    Aunt Olivia

  6. Donald MacBride

    Chief Peter Painter

  7. Douglass Dumbrille

    Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

  8. Clarence Kolb

    Hiram P. Brighton

  9. George Meeker

    Harry Grange

  10. Charles Coleman

    Ponsby

  11. Adrian Morris

    Al

  12. Robert Emmett Keane

    Larry Kincaid

  13. Frank Orth

    Steve

  14. Irving Bacon

    Fisherman

  15. Don Brodie

    Reporter (uncredited)

  16. Bess Flowers

    Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)

  17. Jimmy Aubrey

    Mac

  18. Paul E. Burns

    Furniture Company Move

  19. James Conaty

    Casino Patron

  20. Robert Conway

    Desk Clerk

  21. Sayre Dearing

    Racetrack Spectator

  22. Ralph Dunn

    First Bartender

  23. Fern Emmett

    Jenny

  24. Dick French

    Reporter

  25. Harold Goodwin

    Reporter

  26. Dick Gordon

    Casino Patron

  27. Sherry Hall

    2nd Bartender

  28. Paul Kruger

    Parking Attendent

  29. Hamilton MacFadden

    Reporter

  30. Tony Martelli

    Casino Patron

  31. Major McBride

    Croupier

  32. Harold Miller

    Casino Patron

  33. Frank Mills

    Counterman

  34. Edmund Mortimer

    Casino Patron

  35. Field Norton

    Casino Patron

  36. Paddy O'Flynn

    Reporter

  37. James Pierce

    Burly Man Downstairs

  38. Dick Rich

    Mover

  39. Jack Richardson

    Casino Patron

  40. Cyril Ring

    Reporter

  41. Bob Rose

    Freddy

  42. S.S. Simon

    Casino Patron

  43. Larry Steers

    Racetrack Spectator

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 43 , Crews : 15

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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940) 77 Min

ALL 12/19/1940 (en)
Comedy, Mystery
  • Release 12/19/1940
  • Production
    20th Century Fox
  • Original title Michael Shayne: Private Detective
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Eugene Forde

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Alfred DeGaetano

    Editor

  4. Producer



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