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Sleepers East
1934 0.0 (0 votes) 1h 9m
Genres
Comedy Crime Mystery
Production Companies
Fox Film Corporation

Sleepers East

FIND THIS WOMAN! Hold her for the police! For her lips hold the fate of six people! Murder! Suspense! Mystery! Intrigue! Romance!

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.

Key Crew

Director: Kenneth MacKenna

Producer: Sol M. Wurtzel

Writer: Lester Cole

Director of Photography: Ernest Palmer

Top Cast

Wynne Gibson
Wynne Gibson

Lena Karelson

Preston Foster
Preston Foster

Jason Everett

Mona Barrie
Mona Barrie

Ada Robillard

Harvey Stephens
Harvey Stephens

Martin Knox

Roger Imhof
Roger Imhof

MacGowan

J. Carrol Naish
J. Carrol Naish

Carl Izzard

Suzanne Kaaren
Suzanne Kaaren

Dixie

Howard Lally

Jack Wentworth

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