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) · Fred Myton (Screenplay) · Brett Halliday (Story)
Hugh Beaumont
Michael Shayne
Kathryn Adams
Phyllis Hamilton
Cy Kendall
Inspector Pete Rafferty
Marjorie Hoshelle
Helen Porter
Frank Ferguson
Walter Bronson
Richard Fraser
Dillingham 'Dilly' Smith
Paul Bryar
Tim Rourke
Mauritz Hugo
Hank Brenner
Charles Cahill Wilson
Chief of Police Will Gentry (as Charles Wilson)
Sonia Sorel
Muriel Bronson
Claire Rochelle
Minerva Dickens
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Newspaper reporter Tim Rourke keeps writing articles that attack the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, which nearly leads to the reporter's death. He calls in private detective Michael Shayne, who turns up a blonde and a blackmailer.
