Sleepers East

Sleepers East (1934)

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.

Date of release
1934-01-01
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 9m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Director
Kenneth MacKenna

Casting

Interesting facts

Sleepers East is a 1934 American pre-Code crime film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and written by Lester Cole. It is based on the 1933 novel Sleepers East by Frederick Nebel. The film stars Wynne Gibson, Preston Foster, Mona Barrie, Harvey Stephens, Roger Imhof and J. Carrol Naish. The film was released on January 26, 1934, by Fox Film Corporation. The novel was also used as inspiration for the 1941 film Sleepers West.

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