Michael Shayne: Private Detective Trailer

Michael Shayne: Private Detective Trailer (1940)

19 December 1940 Comedy, Mystery 77 mins

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

as Michael Shayne

Marjorie Weaver

as Phyllis Brighton

Joan Valerie

as Marsha Gordon

Walter Abel

as Elliott Thomas

Elizabeth Patterson

as Aunt Olivia

Donald MacBride

as Chief Peter Painter

Douglass Dumbrille

as Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

Clarence Kolb

as Hiram P. Brighton

George Meeker

as Harry Grange

Robert Emmett Keane

as Larry Kincaid

Frank Orth

as Steve

Irving Bacon

as Fisherman

Don Brodie

as Reporter (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

as Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)

Crew

Sol M. Wurtzel

Sol M. Wurtzel Executive Producer

Thomas Little

Thomas Little Set Decoration

George Schneiderman

George Schneiderman Director of Photography

Lewis H. Creber

Lewis H. Creber Art Direction

Cyril J. Mockridge

Original Music Composer

Richard Day

Richard Day Art Direction

Herschel McCoy

Herschel McCoy Costume Design

William Eckhardt

William Eckhardt Assistant Director

Emil Newman

Emil Newman Music Director

International Releases Dates

United States 19 December 1940

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