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Michael Shayne: Private Detective
1940, Dec 19
1h 17m
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.
Directed by
Eugene Forde
Bess Flowers
Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)
Donald MacBride
Chief Peter Painter
Lloyd Nolan
Michael Shayne
Clarence Kolb
Hiram P. Brighton
Irving Bacon
Fisherman
George Meeker
Harry Grange
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Olivia
Douglass Dumbrille
Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Walter Abel
Elliott Thomas
Dick Rich
Mover
Paul E. Burns
Furniture Company Move
Harold Goodwin
Reporter
Larry Steers
Racetrack Spectator
Fern Emmett
Jenny
Adrian Morris
Al
Frank Mills
Counterman
Charles Coleman
Ponsby
Don Brodie
Reporter (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Casino Patron
Frank Orth
Steve
Robert Emmett Keane
Larry Kincaid
Cyril Ring
Reporter
Marjorie Weaver
Phyllis Brighton
Ralph Dunn
First Bartender
Jimmy Aubrey
Mac
Joan Valerie
Marsha Gordon
Sayre Dearing
Racetrack Spectator
Jack Richardson
Casino Patron
James Pierce
Burly Man Downstairs
Paul Kruger
Parking Attendent
S.S. Simon
Casino Patron
Robert Conway
Desk Clerk
James Conaty
Casino Patron
Dick French
Reporter
Dick Gordon
Casino Patron
Sherry Hall
2nd Bartender
Tony Martelli
Casino Patron
Major McBride
Croupier
Edmund Mortimer
Casino Patron
Field Norton
Casino Patron
Paddy O'Flynn
Reporter
Bob Rose
Freddy
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