MICHAEL SHAYNE, PRIVATE DETECTIVE (1940)

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, five films from the low-budget Producers Releasing Corporation with Hugh Beaumont, a radio series under a variety of titles between 1944 and 1953, and later in 1960–1961 in a 32-episode NBC television series starring Richard Denning in the title role.
A private eye (Lloyd Nolan) follows a racing official's gambling debutante daughter (Marjorie Weaver) into danger.
Initial release: December 19, 1940
Director: Eugene Forde
Story by: Brett Halliday
Film series: Michael Shayne Series
Screenplay: Brett Halliday, Stanley Rauh, Manning O'Connor

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