Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)


  • Genre: Comedy, Mystery
  • Release Date: 1940-12-19
  • User Rating: 6.5/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: 20th Century Fox
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Eugene Forde
star 6.5/10
From 11 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Lloyd Nolan

    as Michael Shayne
  • Marjorie Weaver

    as Phyllis Brighton
  • Joan Valerie

    as Marsha Gordon
  • Walter Abel

    as Elliott Thomas
  • Elizabeth Patterson

    as Aunt Olivia
  • Donald MacBride

    as Chief Peter Painter
  • Douglass Dumbrille

    as Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
  • Clarence Kolb

    as Hiram P. Brighton
  • George Meeker

    as Harry Grange
  • Charles Coleman

    as Ponsby
  • Adrian Morris

    as Al
  • Robert Emmett Keane

    as Larry Kincaid
  • Frank Orth

    as Steve
  • Irving Bacon

    as Fisherman
  • Don Brodie

    as Reporter (uncredited)
  • Bess Flowers

    as Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)
  • Jimmy Aubrey

    as Mac
  • Paul E. Burns

    as Furniture Company Move
  • James Conaty

    as Casino Patron
  • Robert Conway

    as Desk Clerk
  • Sayre Dearing

    as Racetrack Spectator
  • Ralph Dunn

    as First Bartender
  • Fern Emmett

    as Jenny
  • Dick French

    as Reporter
  • Harold Goodwin

    as Reporter
  • Dick Gordon

    as Casino Patron
  • Sherry Hall

    as 2nd Bartender
  • Paul Kruger

    as Parking Attendent
  • Hamilton MacFadden

    as Reporter
  • Tony Martelli

    as Casino Patron
  • Major McBride

    as Croupier
  • Harold Miller

    as Casino Patron
  • Frank Mills

    as Counterman
  • Edmund Mortimer

    as Casino Patron
  • Field Norton

    as Casino Patron
  • Paddy O'Flynn

    as Reporter
  • James Pierce

    as Burly Man Downstairs
  • Dick Rich

    as Mover
  • Jack Richardson

    as Casino Patron
  • Cyril Ring

    as Reporter
  • Bob Rose

    as Freddy
  • S.S. Simon

    as Casino Patron
  • Larry Steers

    as Racetrack Spectator
Directing Eugene Forde Director
Writing Stanley Rauh Screenplay
Writing Brett Halliday Novel
Writing Manning O'Connor Screenplay
Sound Cyril J. Mockridge Original Music Composer
Production Sol M. Wurtzel Executive Producer
Editing Alfred DeGaetano Editor
Art Lewis H. Creber Art Direction
Art Thomas Little Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up Herschel McCoy Costume Design
Directing William Eckhardt Assistant Director
Camera George Schneiderman Director of Photography
Sound W. D. Flick Sound
Art Richard Day Art Direction
Sound Harry M. Leonard Sound

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