Sleepers East
FIND THIS WOMAN! Hold her for the police! For her lips hold the fate of six people! Murder! Suspense! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance!
1934 · 1h 9m Comedy, Crime, Mystery
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Sleepers East
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Wynne Gibson as Lena Karelson
- Preston Foster as Jason Everett
- Mona Barrie as Ada Robillard
- Harvey Stephens as Martin Knox
- Roger Imhof as MacGowan
- J. Carrol Naish as Carl Izzard
- Suzanne Kaaren as Dixie
- Howard Lally as Jack Wentworth
- Joseph Crehan as Conductor (uncredited)
- Marianne Edwards as Baby (uncredited)
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