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Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.
Theatrical
Jun 10, 1946
Keywords
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...
Cast
Full credits →H
Hugh Beaumont
Michael Shayne
K
Kathryn Adams
Phyllis Hamilton
C
Cy Kendall
Inspector Pete Rafferty
M
Marjorie Hoshelle
Helen Porter
F
Frank Ferguson
Walter Bronson
R
Richard Fraser
Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
P
Paul Bryar
Tim Rourke
M
Mauritz Hugo
Hank Brenner
C
Charles Cahill Wilson
Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
S
Sonia Sorel
Muriel Bronson
C
Claire Rochelle
Minerva Dickens
