“Sleepers West” Storyline – Detective Shayne is on a train headed for San Francisco with a surprise witness (Hughes) whom many on board would like to keep from testifying at a murder trial.
Main Cast & Crew Starring, Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hues, Louis Jean Heyd, Edward Brophy, Don Costello, Ben Carter, Donald Douglas, Oscar O’Shea, Harry Hayden, Hamilton MacFadden, and Ferike Boros. Directed by Eugene Forde. Released March 14, 1941.
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Always nice to see Mantan Moreland 😉
Trains are great locations for mysteries.
"Same smile, same gusto, same hat"
Very nice movie thanks for posting
Bookmarked the other Shayne movies for the weekend. 👍
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This is such a great film
Train travel culture and the newspaper reporting culture both now sadly dead are perfectly preserved in this lovely story.
Mary Beth Hughes is channeling Lana Turner
At 33:12:. Why didn't she simply slip her hand through the trapped sleeve? Might hurt a bit, but easy enough to do.
is that Rochester from the Jack Benny show
Hey, I know that voice! Mantan Moreland is always a pleasure to see. And grossly underutilized as usual. <checks IMDB> And uncredited? Screw you, 20th Century Fox.
Imagine working in a hotel before the put wheels on suitcases – on the up side the tips were probably better – makes you wonder why they didnt come up with the idea earlier
That was fun!
Why do I love Edward Brophy so much? Fun to watch?
Train Mysteries are Fun
This is such a sweet movie and a happy ending! Wish they still made movies like this!
He was real good as the doctor on the show ‘Julia’. What a great show btw!
What a treat, fab film , top quality. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for this surprisingly excellent and extremely fine copy of a film I never saw and I thought I had seen all the murder-and-surprise-mystery-on-a-train ever made with the best of the bunch being "The Lady Vanishes".
No comments re the not-so-bright stereotyped sleeping car attendant. No one else was put off?
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