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.
12 films
Sam Newfield (Director) · Raymond L. Schrock (Screenplay)
Hugh Beaumont
Michael Shayne
Cheryl Walker
Phyllis Hamilton
Ralph Dunn
Det. Sgt. Pete Rafferty
Paul Bryar
Tim Rourke
Charles Cahill Wilson
Chief Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
Douglas Fowley
Doc H. C. Patterson
Gordon Richards
Burton Stallings
Charles Quigley
Arch Dubler
Julia McMillan
Lucille
Marie Hannon
Helen Stallings / Barbara Brett
Lee Bennett
Whit Marlowe
Henry Hall
Dr. F. C. Porter
Fred Aldrich
Asylum Orderly
Chet Brandenburg
Patient
John Cason
Club Bouncer
Milton Kibbee
Joe Morell
Bob Reeves
Police Officer
Jack Roper
Club Bouncer
Gene Roth
Asylum Orderly
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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.
