Cast
Crew
S
Sam Newfield
Director
F
Fred Myton
Screenplay
B
Brett Halliday
Story
B
Brett Halliday
Characters
Michael Shayne Collection
The 1940 film Michael Shayne, Private Detective is the first in a series of twelve movies. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne through 1942, until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox and picked up by PRC. At that point, Hugh Beaumont took over the role in five films released in 1946.
