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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.
Theatrical
Dec 19, 1940
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 →L
Lloyd Nolan
Michael Shayne
M
Marjorie Weaver
Phyllis Brighton
J
Joan Valerie
Marsha Gordon
W
Walter Abel
Elliott Thomas
E
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Olivia
D
Donald MacBride
Chief Peter Painter
D
Douglass Dumbrille
Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)
C
Clarence Kolb
Hiram P. Brighton
G
George Meeker
Harry Grange
C
Charles Coleman
Ponsby
A
Adrian Morris
Al
R
Robert Emmett Keane
Larry Kincaid
F
Frank Orth
Steve
I
Irving Bacon
Fisherman
D
Don Brodie
Reporter (uncredited)
B
Bess Flowers
Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)
J
Jimmy Aubrey
Mac
P
Paul E. Burns
Furniture Company Move
J
James Conaty
Casino Patron
R
Robert Conway
Desk Clerk
