Sleepers East
FIND THIS WOMAN! Hold her for the police! For her lips hold the fate of six people! Murder! Suspense! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance!
- Crime
- Comedy
- Mystery
Overview
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1934
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Fox Film Corporation
- Cast
- Wynne Gibson,Preston Foster,Mona Barrie,Harvey Stephens,Roger Imhof,J. Carrol Naish,Suzanne Kaaren,Howard Lally,Joseph Crehan,Marianne Edwardsand 4 more
- Director
- Kenneth MacKenna
- Writer
- Lester Cole,Frederick Nebel
- Producer
- Sol M. Wurtzel
- Cinematography
- Ernest Palmer
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0025801