Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Dec 19, 1940

1h 17m

★ 6.5

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.

Genres

Comedy

Mystery

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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Cast

Michael Shayne

Lloyd Nolan

Phyllis Brighton

Marjorie Weaver

Marsha Gordon

Joan Valerie

Elliott Thomas

Walter Abel

Aunt Olivia

Elizabeth Patterson

Chief Peter Painter

Donald MacBride

Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

Douglass Dumbrille

Hiram P. Brighton

Clarence Kolb

Harry Grange

George Meeker

Ponsby

Charles Coleman

Adrian Morris

Larry Kincaid

Robert Emmett Keane

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