About
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.
Theatrical
Jan 6, 1942
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20th Century Fox
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
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Lloyd Nolan
Michael Shayne
M
Mary Beth Hughes
Merle Garland
G
George Reeves
Juan Arturo O'Hara
H
Helene Reynolds
Helen Shaw
S
Steven Geray
Vanderhoefen
H
Henry Victor
Rudolf Hagerman
C
Curt Bois
Friedrich Gerber, alias Nappy Dubois
M
Marie Blake
Ethel
E
Emmett Vogan
Charlie
M
Mae Marsh
Mrs. Bertha Toby
F
Frank Orth
Mr. Toby
I
Ivan Lebedeff
Alexis Fournier
W
Wade Boteler
Judge
C
Charles Trowbridge
Capt. Brown
E
Edward Earle
First Officer Richards
C
Cliff Clark
Inspector Peterson
A
Arthur Loft
Joseph P. McCordy
A
Ann Doran
Miss Hoffman
C
Charles Williams
Theodore H. Sherman Jr.- Printer
M
Monica Bannister
Clerk (uncredited)
