Sleepers West (1941)

Directed by

Eugene Forde

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 14m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A private detective boards a train to protect a witness from a gangster. The detective must uncover a killer among the passengers before the train reaches its destination.

suspensefulnoir-ishfast-pacedwhodunitgrittyromantic undertonecerebralclassic

What happens

Sleepers West is a 1941 American mystery drama film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari and Mary Beth Hughes. This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne series was a remake of the 1934 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East from the novel Sleepers East (1933) by Frederick Nebel. The film Michael Shayne - Private Detective (1940) was the first in a series of 12 films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox and picked up by PRC. In the PRC series, Hugh Beaumont played Shayne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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