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Sleepers West is a american film of genre Drama directed by Eugene Forde released in USA on 14 march 1941 with Lloyd Nolan

Sleepers West (1941)

Sleepers West
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Released in USA 14 march 1941
Length 1h14
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Noir,    Crime
Rating65% 3.2913053.2913053.2913053.2913053.291305

Sleepers West is a 1941 drama film directed by Eugene Forde, starring Lloyd Nolan and Lynn Bari.

This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne series was a remake of the 1932 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East from the novel Sleepers East (1933) by Frederick Nebel. The film Michael Shayne - Private Detective (1940) was the first in a series of 12 films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox and picked up by PRC. In the PRC series, Hugh Beaumont played Shayne.

Synopsis

Shadowed by persistent girl reporter Kay Bentley (Lynn Bari), private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) tries his best to secretly escort murder-trial witness Helen Carlson (Mary Beth Hughes) by train from Denver to San Francisco.

Actors

Lloyd Nolan

(Michael Shayne)Lynn Bari

(Kay Bentley)Mary Beth Hughes

(Helen Carlson)Louis Jean Heydt

(Everett Jason)Edward Brophy

(George Trautwein)
And :
Don Costello
Ben Carter
Donald Douglas
Oscar O'Shea
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