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Michael Shayne, Private Detective
Michael Shayne, Private Detective is a 1940 American mystery film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver and Joan Valerie. It is based on Brett Halliday's novel "The Private Practice of Michael Shayne". It was the first in a series of Michael Shayne films starring Nolan.
Synopsis.
A private detective is hired to act as a guardian to a wealthy man's daughter, who has been gambling away her allowance at the racetrack and associating with shady characters in
end, Shayne proves to Detective Pete Rafferty that it was Ross, now going by the alias Madden, who was behind the scheme. Phyllis forgives the private eye and begins planning their vacation.
Cast.
- Hugh Beaumont as Michael Shayne
- Trudy Marshall as Phyllis Hamilton
- Ralph Dunn as Det. Peter Rafferty
- Claire Carleton as Mayme Martin
- Charles Mitchell as Tim Rourke
- John Hamilton as Albert Payson
- Grandon Rhodes as John Hardeman
- Ben Welden as Gil Madden / Theodore