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Film · 1934
Sleepers East
1h 9mDirected by Kenneth MacKenna
- Comedy
- Crime
- Mystery
FIND THIS WOMAN! Hold her for the police! For her lips hold the fate of six people! Murder! Suspense! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance!
No good deed goes unpunished for Lena Karelson (Wynne Gibson), hooker with a heart of gold trying to go straight in the big city. Covering a bachelor party for a friend in need, Lena winds up at a gambling house where she is the sole witness when Mayor Wentworth's drunken lout of a son shoots the owner. Wentworth's political machine wants Lena to falsely incriminate mob boss Callahan to bolster their re-election campaign. Callahan's mouthpiece nabs Lena first, conveying her stealthily by train from Toledo to New York to prevent her from testifying against the big boss. A midnight special smash-up, a tense courtroom finale and true love triumphant round out this typical Fox pre-Code programmer, released just before the Legion of Decency dropped the hammer in 1934.
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Cast
Wynne GibsonLena Karelson
Preston FosterJason Everett
Mona BarrieAda Robillard
Harvey StephensMartin Knox
Roger ImhofMacGowan
J. Carrol NaishCarl Izzard
Suzanne KaarenDixie- Howard LallyJack Wentworth
Joseph CrehanConductor (uncredited)
Marianne EdwardsBaby (uncredited)
Francis FordWell-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Douglas FowleyGangster (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Kenneth MacKenna
- Writer
- Lester Cole
- Novel
- Frederick Nebel
- Cinematography
- Ernest Palmer
- Producer
- Sol M. Wurtzel
- Release
- January 1, 1934
- Runtime
- 1h 9m
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Fox Film Corporation
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