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.| Status: | Released (1940-12-19) |
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| Screen: | Stanley Rauh, Manning O'Connor, Brett Halliday |
| Productions: | 20th Century Fox |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 19411: Lloyd Nolan - Michael Shayne
- 34363: Marjorie Weaver - Phyllis Brighton
- 120710: Joan Valerie - Marsha Gordon
- 77114: Walter Abel - Elliott Thomas
- 83237: Elizabeth Patterson - Aunt Olivia
- 34234: Donald MacBride - Chief Peter Painter
- 34748: Douglass Dumbrille - Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Crews
- 118343: Eugene Forde - Director - Directing
- 233269: Stanley Rauh - Screenplay - Writing
- 1376872: Manning O'Connor - Screenplay - Writing
- 133238: Brett Halliday - Novel - Writing
- 103948: Sol M. Wurtzel - Executive Producer - Production
- 14647: Cyril J. Mockridge - Original Music Composer - Sound
- 109609: George Schneiderman - Director of Photography - Camera
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For some reason, this starts with and features a slightly Scottish lilt to the score throughout, as we follow the slightly zany investigations of the eponymous down-at-heel PI (Lloyd Nolan) as he tries to wade his way through the murky worlds of horse racing, gaming addicts and, of c ....
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