Saturday, March 1, 2025

MICHAEL SHAYNE, PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1940)

 




















Directed by: Eugene Forde
Based on the novel "The Private Practice of Michael Shayne" by: Brett Halliday
Starring: Lloyd NolanMarjorie WeaverJoan ValerieWalter AbelElizabeth PattersonDonald MacBrideDouglass DumbrilleClarence KolbGeorge MeekerCharles ColemanAdrian MorrisRobert Emmett KeaneFrank OrthIrving Bacon, Jimmy AubreyDon BrodiePaul E. BurnsJames ConatyRobert ConwaySayre DearingRalph DunnFern EmmettBess FlowersDick FrenchHarold GoodwinSherry HallPaul KrugerHamilton MacFaddenTony MartelliMajor McBrideFrank MillsEdmund MortimerField NortonPaddy O'FlynnJames PierceDick RichJack RichardsonCyril RingBob Rose, S.S. SimonLarry Steers

77 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
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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