Michael Shayne: Private Detective
movie
Released December 19, 1940
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.
Cast
Lloyd Nolan
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Michael Shayne
Marjorie Weaver
as
Phyllis Brighton
Joan Valerie
as
Marsha Gordon
Walter Abel
as
Elliott Thomas
Elizabeth Patterson
as
Aunt Olivia
Donald MacBride
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Chief Peter Painter
Douglass Dumbrille
as
Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
Clarence Kolb
as
Hiram P. Brighton
George Meeker
as
Harry Grange
Charles Coleman
as
Ponsby
Adrian Morris
as
Al
Robert Emmett Keane
as
Larry Kincaid
Crew
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Eugene Forde
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Director
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Stanley Rauh
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Screenplay
Brett Halliday
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Novel
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Manning O'Connor
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Screenplay
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Cyril J. Mockridge
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Original Music Composer
Sol M. Wurtzel
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Executive Producer
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Alfred DeGaetano
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Editor
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Lewis H. Creber
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Art Direction
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Thomas Little
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Set Decoration
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Herschel McCoy
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Costume Design
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William Eckhardt
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Assistant Director
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George Schneiderman
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Director of Photography