Michael Shayne: Private Detective
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- Comedy
- Mystery
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.
Keywords
- murder
- private detective
- gambling
- racetrack
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 19, 1940
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- 20th Century Fox
- Cast
- Field Norton,Hamilton MacFadden,Jimmy Aubrey,Tony Martelli,Paddy O'Flynn,Paul Kruger,Dick Gordon,James Conaty,Douglass Dumbrille,Irving Baconand 33 more
- Director
- Eugene Forde
- Producer
- Sol M. Wurtzel
- Cinematography
- George Schneiderman
- Music
- Cyril J. Mockridge
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0032788