Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)

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Original Title: Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Release Date: December 19, 1940

Runtime: 77 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

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.

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Cast

Lloyd Nolan

Michael Shayne

Marjorie Weaver

Phyllis Brighton

Joan Valerie

Marsha Gordon

Walter Abel

Elliott Thomas

Donald MacBride

Chief Peter Painter

Douglass Dumbrille

Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

Clarence Kolb

Hiram P. Brighton

George Meeker

Harry Grange

Don Brodie

Reporter (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)

Paul E. Burns

Furniture Company Move

Sayre Dearing

Racetrack Spectator

Ralph Dunn

First Bartender

Paul Kruger

Parking Attendent

Harold Miller

Casino Patron

Frank Mills

Counterman

James Pierce

Burly Man Downstairs

Jack Richardson

Casino Patron

S.S. Simon

Casino Patron

Larry Steers

Racetrack Spectator

Crew

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