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Film / 1940
Michael Shayne: Private Detective
Directed by
Eugene Forde
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 …
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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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Cast
Lloyd NolanMichael Shayne
Marjorie WeaverPhyllis Brighton
Joan ValerieMarsha Gordon
Walter AbelElliott Thomas
Elizabeth PattersonAunt Olivia
Donald MacBrideChief Peter Painter
Douglass DumbrilleBenny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Clarence KolbHiram P. Brighton
George MeekerHarry Grange
Charles ColemanPonsby
Adrian MorrisAl
Robert Emmett KeaneLarry Kincaid
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Frank OrthSteve
Irving BaconFisherman
Don BrodieReporter (uncredited)
Bess FlowersRacetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)
Jimmy AubreyMac
Paul E. BurnsFurniture Company Move
James ConatyCasino Patron
Robert ConwayDesk Clerk
Sayre DearingRacetrack Spectator
Ralph DunnFirst Bartender
Fern EmmettJenny
Dick FrenchReporter
Harold GoodwinReporter
Dick GordonCasino Patron
Sherry Hall2nd Bartender
Paul KrugerParking Attendent
Hamilton MacFaddenReporter
Tony MartelliCasino Patron
Major McBrideCroupier
Harold MillerCasino Patron
Frank MillsCounterman
Edmund MortimerCasino Patron
Field NortonCasino Patron
Paddy O'FlynnReporter
James PierceBurly Man Downstairs
Dick RichMover
Jack RichardsonCasino Patron
Cyril RingReporter
Bob RoseFreddy
S.S. SimonCasino Patron
Larry SteersRacetrack Spectator
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