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Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
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10 January 1941 (USA) morePlot:
After gumshoe Mike Shayne is hired by a millionaire to keep his daughter away from gambling and gamblers, he becomes involved in the murder of a racetrack tout. full summary | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Complete credited cast) | Lloyd Nolan | ... | Michael Shayne |
| Marjorie Weaver | ... | Phyllis Brighton |
| Joan Valerie | ... | Marsha Gordon |
| Walter Abel | ... | Elliott Thomas |
| Elizabeth Patterson | ... | Aunt Olivia |
| Donald MacBride | ... | Chief Painter |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille) |
| Clarence Kolb | ... | Hiram P. Brighton |
| George Meeker | ... | Harry Grange |
| Charles Coleman | ... | Ponsby, Brightons' Butler |
| Adrian Morris | ... | Al (as Michael Morris) |
| Robert Emmett Keane | ... | Larry Kincaid |
| Frank Orth | ... | Steve |
| Irving Bacon | ... | Fisherman |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| James Pierce | ... | Burly Man (scenes deleted) |
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| This film is based on the novel 'The Private Practice of Michael Shayne' | Adam_P_L |
| Who is the actor? | Art-22 |
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This comes across as a stew of screwball comedy and whodunnit literary conventions. Within the story, we have Patterson, an avid mystery novel reader, occupying the position of the target movie-watcher.
Rather stagy and uncinematic, with bad acoustics, and the usual-for-the-period (bad) sped up camera tricks.
Nolan is the only one with an actual clue here...his stance is that of an actor playing a character playing several personas (each distinguished by putting on different voices)in order to flummox the cast of dimwits. This is a rough template for the far better "Fletch" movies.
The tracing by pencil of the paper imprints is spoofed in "Big Lebowski".