Sleepers East (1934)
- Directed by
- Kenneth MacKenna
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 09m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman and a man board a train hoping to escape their troubled pasts. Their journey grows dangerous when a detective hunts a fugitive on the same train.
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What happens
Sleepers East is a 1934 American pre-Code crime film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and written by Lester Cole. It is based on the 1933 novel Sleepers East by Frederick Nebel. The film stars Wynne Gibson, Preston Foster, Mona Barrie, Harvey Stephens, Roger Imhof and J. Carrol Naish. The film was released on January 26, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation. The novel was also used as inspiration for the 1941 film Sleepers West. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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