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Sleepers East (1934)

Sleepers East poster
Directed by
Kenneth MacKenna
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

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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