Cast
Crew
H
Herbert I. Leeds
Director
B
Brett Halliday
Characters
A
Arnaud d'Usseau
Screenplay
J
Jo Eisinger
Idea
S
Sol M. Wurtzel
Producer
L
Lucien N. Andriot
Director of Photography
L
Louis R. Loeffler
Editor
R
Richard Day
Art Direction
C
Chester Gore
Art Direction
T
Thomas Little
Set Decoration
W
W.D. Flick
Sound
E
Emil Newman
Music Director
F
Frank L. James
Technical Advisor
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.