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The 1940 film Michael Shayne, Private Detective is the first in a series of twelve movies. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne through 1942, until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox and picked up by PRC. At that point, Hugh Beaumont took over the role in five films released in 1946.

  • Number of Movies: 12
  • Revenue: -

Featured Cast

  1. Lloyd Nolan

    Lloyd Nolan

    Michael Shayne

  2. Hugh Beaumont

    Hugh Beaumont

    Michael Shayne

  3. Mary Beth Hughes

    Mary Beth Hughes

    Merle Garland, Joanne La Marre, Helen Carlson

  4. Marjorie Weaver

    Marjorie Weaver

    Phyllis Brighton, Judy Taylor, Catherine Wolff

  5. Cheryl Walker

    Cheryl Walker

    Phyllis Hamilton

  6. Heather Angel

    Heather Angel

    Myrle Davis

  7. Trudy Marshall

    Trudy Marshall

    Phyllis Hamilton

  8. Kathryn Adams

    Kathryn Adams

    Phyllis Hamilton

  9. Lynn Bari

    Lynn Bari

    Kay Bentley

  10. Ralph Dunn

    Ralph Dunn

    First Bartender, Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty, , Detective Peter Rafferty, Pete Rafferty, Inspector Pete Rafferty

  11. Paul Bryar

    Paul Bryar

    Tim Rourke

  12. Joan Valerie

    Joan Valerie

    Marsha Gordon, Rita Darling

  13. Helene Reynolds

    Helene Reynolds

    Anna Wolff, Helen Shaw

  14. George Reeves

    George Reeves

    Juan Arturo O'Hara

Featured Crew

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and roulette wheels. After Phyllis slips away and continues her compulsive gambling, Shayne fakes the murder of her gambler boyfriend, who is also romancing the daughter of casino owner Benny Gordon, in order to frighten her. When the tout really ends up murdered, Shayne and Phyllis' Aunt Olivia, an avid reader of murder mysteries, both try to find the identity of the killer.

March 14, 1941

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

August 8, 1941

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

January 6, 1942

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

April 27, 1942

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

August 28, 1942

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out on sequestration in order to solve the case himself!

December 24, 1942

Lloyd Nolan is back as detective Michael Shayne who's in search of a stolen coin.

March 7, 1946

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper press that he is going to close Shayne's agency, just as Michael is about to be hired by the wealthy Eleanor Ramsey, who is being blackmailed. She is the stepmother of what she considers to be two grown-up brats, Dorothy and Ernest, and she considers their father to be of little value to the world himself. They all conspire to get their hands on her money, even to the extent of attempting to hire Shayne to frame an insurance robbery. Mrs. Ramsey is murdered, and Rafferty is trying to pin the killing on Shayne, despite the fact that suspicion points to Buell Renslow, brother of the slain woman. Shayne's secretary, the fetching Phyllis Hamilton, decides to do a little detective work to help her boss.

May 20, 1946

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.

June 10, 1946

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

April 4, 1947

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne finds a baggage ticket in his hand. He claims it and finds the checked-bag contains the loot from a robbery. Now, he has about fifty minutes left of the running time to find the crooks, bring them to justice and return the money to the rightful owners. And needs all of it.

May 24, 1947

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

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