Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)

Comedy Mystery

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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  • Release Date: 1940-12-19
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Director: Eugene Forde

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Cast

  • Lloyd Nolan

    Michael Shayne

  • Marjorie Weaver

    Phyllis Brighton

  • Joan Valerie

    Marsha Gordon

  • Walter Abel

    Elliott Thomas

  • Elizabeth Patterson

    Aunt Olivia

  • Donald MacBride

    Chief Peter Painter

  • Douglass Dumbrille

    Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

  • Clarence Kolb

    Hiram P. Brighton

  • George Meeker

    Harry Grange

  • Charles Coleman

    Ponsby

  • Adrian Morris

    Al

  • Robert Emmett Keane

    Larry Kincaid

  • Frank Orth

    Steve

  • Irving Bacon

    Fisherman

  • Don Brodie

    Reporter (uncredited)

  • Bess Flowers

    Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)

  • Jimmy Aubrey

    Mac

  • Paul E. Burns

    Furniture Company Move

  • James Conaty

    Casino Patron

  • Robert Conway

    Desk Clerk

  • Sayre Dearing

    Racetrack Spectator

  • Ralph Dunn

    First Bartender

  • Fern Emmett

    Jenny

  • Dick French

    Reporter

  • Harold Goodwin

    Reporter

  • Dick Gordon

    Casino Patron

  • Sherry Hall

    2nd Bartender

  • Paul Kruger

    Parking Attendent

  • Hamilton MacFadden

    Reporter

  • Tony Martelli

    Casino Patron

  • Major McBride

    Croupier

  • Harold Miller

    Casino Patron

  • Frank Mills

    Counterman

  • Edmund Mortimer

    Casino Patron

  • Field Norton

    Casino Patron

  • Paddy O'Flynn

    Reporter

  • James Pierce

    Burly Man Downstairs

  • Dick Rich

    Mover

  • Jack Richardson

    Casino Patron

  • Cyril Ring

    Reporter

  • Bob Rose

    Freddy

  • S.S. Simon

    Casino Patron

  • Larry Steers

    Racetrack Spectator

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