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
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 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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The Officer and the Lady (1941)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.