• Home
  • Movie
  • Tv Shows
  • Anime
  • Sports
  • IPTV
  • Collection
  • AI Search
  • Download
  • Embed
Febbox Token

CinemaOS

Your entertainment hub

TrendingMoviesTV ShowsSearch
Powered byConsumet & TMDB API

Important Disclaimer

◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜

CinemaOS operates as a content aggregator and does not host any media files on our servers. All content is sourced from third-party providers and embedded services. For any copyright concerns or DMCA takedown requests, please contact the respective content providers directly.

Third-party ContentNo File Hosting

Built with ❤️ for entertainment enthusiasts worldwide

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Watch TrailerWatch Movie
Share

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1940
1h 17m
6.5(11 votes)
Comedy
Mystery

Overview

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.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

20th Century Fox

Videos & Trailers

1 video

Cast & Crew

43 members
Acting

Lloyd Nolan

Michael Shayne

Lloyd Nolan
Acting

Marjorie Weaver

Phyllis Brighton

Marjorie Weaver
Acting

Joan Valerie

Marsha Gordon

Joan Valerie
Acting

Walter Abel

Elliott Thomas

Walter Abel
Acting

Elizabeth Patterson

Aunt Olivia

Elizabeth Patterson
Acting

Donald MacBride

Chief Peter Painter

Donald MacBride
Acting

Douglass Dumbrille

Benny Gordon (as Douglas Dumbrille)

Douglass Dumbrille
Acting

Clarence Kolb

Hiram P. Brighton

Clarence Kolb
Acting

George Meeker

Harry Grange

George Meeker
Acting

Charles Coleman

Ponsby

Charles Coleman
Acting

Adrian Morris

Al

Adrian Morris
Acting

Robert Emmett Keane

Larry Kincaid

Robert Emmett Keane
Acting

Frank Orth

Steve

Frank Orth
Acting

Irving Bacon

Fisherman

Irving Bacon
Acting

Don Brodie

Reporter (uncredited)

Don Brodie
Acting

Bess Flowers

Racetrack Spectator in Sunglasses (uncredited)

Bess Flowers
Acting

Jimmy Aubrey

Mac

Jimmy Aubrey
Acting

Paul E. Burns

Furniture Company Move

Paul E. Burns
Acting

James Conaty

Casino Patron

No Image
Acting

Robert Conway

Desk Clerk

Robert Conway
Acting

Sayre Dearing

Racetrack Spectator

Sayre Dearing
Acting

Ralph Dunn

First Bartender

Ralph Dunn
Acting

Fern Emmett

Jenny

Fern Emmett
Acting

Dick French

Reporter

No Image
Acting

Harold Goodwin

Reporter

Harold Goodwin
Acting

Dick Gordon

Casino Patron

No Image
Acting

Sherry Hall

2nd Bartender

No Image
Acting

Paul Kruger

Parking Attendent

Paul Kruger
Directing

Hamilton MacFadden

Reporter

No Image
Acting

Tony Martelli

Casino Patron

No Image
Acting

Major McBride

Croupier

No Image
Acting

Harold Miller

Casino Patron

Harold Miller
Acting

Frank Mills

Counterman

Frank Mills
Acting

Edmund Mortimer

Casino Patron

No Image
Acting

Field Norton

Casino Patron

No Image
Acting

Paddy O'Flynn

Reporter

No Image
Acting

James Pierce

Burly Man Downstairs

James Pierce
Acting

Dick Rich

Mover

Dick Rich
Acting

Jack Richardson

Casino Patron

Jack Richardson
Acting

Cyril Ring

Reporter

Cyril Ring
Acting

Bob Rose

Freddy

No Image
Acting

S.S. Simon

Casino Patron

S.S. Simon
Acting

Larry Steers

Racetrack Spectator

Larry Steers

Similar Movies

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller
5.0
1998

Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller

Director Rufus Lindner is shooting his first film: " Die Vatikankiller". With audience favorite Kai Rabe in the leading role, success is guaranteed. But suddenly chaos descends on the film team: A starlet is murdered, the bitchy leading man goes increasingly crazy, a drunken policeman causes a lot of trouble, and the sex-obsessed producer Egon Lütter doesn't make things any easier.

Movie
Disturbing Behavior
5.8
1998

Disturbing Behavior

Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean living. But, like the rest of the town, they're a little too perfect. When Steve's rebellious friend Gavin mysteriously joins their ranks, Steve searches for the truth with fellow misfit Rachel.

Movie
The Nameless
5.6
1999

The Nameless

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

Movie
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.6
1982

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

Movie
Buffalo '66
7.1
1998

Buffalo '66

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

Movie
Ravenous
6.8
1999

Ravenous

Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Movie
Switch
5.9
1991

Switch

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Movie
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.3
1964

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Movie
Very Bad Things
6.3
1998

Very Bad Things

Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...

Movie
House of Wax
6.0
2005

House of Wax

A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

Movie
The Lie
5.0
1954

The Lie

A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s a friend of the man’s girlfriend. The performer suggests that all the men go out for a few drinks, and the next thing the businessman knows, he’s waking up in his apartment with a terrible hangover and a dead body in his room.

Movie
Balearic Caper
4.4
1966

Balearic Caper

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.

Movie
Dark Glasses
4.7
2022

Dark Glasses

Diana, a high-class prostitute trying to escape from a serial killer, suffers a car accident that leaves her blind and kills the family of Chin, a ten-year-old boy.

Movie
Secret Santa
5.0
2018

Secret Santa

An unknown assailant spikes a family's Christmas punch with a military-grade drug, leaving them fighting to survive the night.

Movie
Nightalk
5.7
2022

Nightalk

A female cop goes undercover on a phone-sex app to solve a murder investigation as she risks becoming the killer's next victim.

Movie
Karma
0
2008

Karma

Vikram and his American wife Anna travel to India to meet Vikram's estranged father. The small town of Ooty is oddly familiar to Anna who becomes haunted by visions of a murder that happened thirty years ago.

Movie
2 Days in the Valley
6.2
1996

2 Days in the Valley

In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the story of two hit men, a mistress, a nurse, a vindictive ex-wife, a wealthy art dealer and his lovelorn assistant, a suicidal writer and his dog, and a bitter cop and his partner.

Movie
Battle of Memories
6.6
2017

Battle of Memories

A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.

Movie
Uncle Sam
4.8
1996

Uncle Sam

It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic.

Movie
The Dark Half
6.0
1993

The Dark Half

Following the public's realization that Thad Beaumont and George Stark are one and the same, the former stages a mock funeral, only for a series of gruesome murders to begin occurring as in his books.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Return of the Tooth Fairy
6.5
2020

Return of the Tooth Fairy

The Tooth Fairy is back. 15 years after the events of the first movie, Corey, now grown up but mentally scarred has gone to a class reunion. However, the Tooth Fairy is back, and this time - You better have flossed properly.

Movie
Mantovani, the King of Strings
6.0
2014

Mantovani, the King of Strings

Known for his unmistakable cascading strings and recordings such as Charmaine, Mantovani enthralled the world with his sublime arrangements. This is the story of the man and his music.

Movie
Summerfield
6.5
1977

Summerfield

When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance.

Movie
Text
6.1
2008

Text

Four friends search for the answers to a series of deadly text messages killing students at their high school.

Movie
Ultravox: Return to Eden - Live at The Roundhouse
6.8
2010

Ultravox: Return to Eden - Live at The Roundhouse

Recorded during the band's 2009 sell out UK tour on April 30 at the legendary Roundhouse in London. The Return to Eden tour was the first time that the classic Ultravox line-up of Midge Ure, Billy Currie, Criss Cross and Warren Cann had performed together in over two decades, and was followed by a highly successful European and festival tour that ran through the summer and into the Autumn.

Movie
Ever After High: Dragon Games
6.5
2016

Ever After High: Dragon Games

Dragons return to Ever After High, and so does the Evil Queen. When the most epic competition and evil scheme starts at Ever After High, Raven and Apple must let go of their story conflict and save their beloved school together.

Movie
The Return of La Llorona
5.9
2021

The Return of La Llorona

La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach after they accidentally kill a young girl.

Movie
The Return of Martin Guerre
6.7
1982

The Return of Martin Guerre

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.

Movie
Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound
6.3
2015

Sonic Magic: The Wonder and Science of Sound

Though our world is full of sound, we only notice the noise. Sound can thrill, delight, warn, and scare us. But there's much more to the story. Sound can cure the sick and make the blind see.

Movie
The Grand Heist
6.5
2012

The Grand Heist

Ice suddenly becomes a more valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty and a gang of eleven professionals are assigned to protect the market situation from irresponsible people.

Movie
Star
4.6
2024

Star

Movie
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
6.1
2013

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1

Return to the Class of Nuke 'Em High follows a young couple that are up against the school glee club. Unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a gang called The Cretins. When the other students begin to undergo mutations, our couple must solve the mystery and save Tromaville High School

Movie
Fire!
3.7
2008

Fire!

When a young musician and his wife become witness of a bank robbery they get in the midst of a political conspiracy with the risk of losing their lives.

Movie
Best of Video Track 77 & 78
1.0
2021

Best of Video Track 77 & 78

Highland Sunset and a final look at Class 37s on the West Highland Line to Fort William before the introduction of Class 66s. Crewe Open Weekend with a tour of Crewe Works during the open weekend of the 20th and 21st of May with a variety of traction plus coverage of specials to the event with 33 and 37 hauage. Class 58 Profile with only half of the original class still in action we take a look at the class from the 1980s to the present day. Devon Contrasts and Class 67 and 47 motive power along the famous stretch of sea wall from Starcross to Dawlish.

Movie
Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.
6.6
2002

Paul McCartney: Back in the U.S.

In 2002, a 60-year old McCartney refocused the attention on his musicianship, staging a massive live concert in Cleveland, Ohio. The superstar, who went on to form the popular rock group Wings and had several hit records as a solo artist, performs a track list that covers all three phases of his long and prolific career, including the hits "Eleanor Rigby," "Live And Let Die," "Blackbird," "The Long And Winding Road," and "Mother Nature's Son." In addition to the 30 tunes that McCartney enthusiastically performs, seemingly immune to the ravages of time and aging, BACK IN THE U.S.A LIVE also includes candid behind-the-scenes footage of the rocker backstage and on the road.

Movie
Golmaal Returns
5.4
2008

Golmaal Returns

Stuck all night on a yacht with a damsel in distress, Gopal lies to his soap opera junkie wife to avoid drama. This sets off a chain of chaotic events that ultimately land him smack dab in the middle of a police case.

Movie
Life of a Mutt
10.0
2021

Life of a Mutt

Through seven scenes, the film follows the life and destinies of stray dogs from the margins of our society, leading us to reconsider our attitude towards them. Through the seven “wandering” characters that we follow at different ages, from birth to old age, we witness their dignified struggle for survival. At the cemetery, in an abandoned factory, in an asylum, in a landfill, in places full of sorrow, our heroes search for love and togetherness. By combining documentary material, animation and acting interpretation of the thoughts of our heroes, we get to know lives between disappointment and hope, quite similar to ours.

Movie
Return to Rajapur
6.8
2006

Return to Rajapur

A doomed love affair blooms against the beautiful and exotic backdrop of the deserts of India in this romantic drama. Samantha Hartley (Kelli Garner) is a woman in her early twenties who travels to Rajapur in India to visit a resort where her mother stayed years ago. While tracing the steps of her mother, Sara (Lynn Collins), Samantha learns the true story about her mother's stormy marriage to Jeremy (Justin Theroux), a charming but moody alcoholic. Only a few days after their wedding, Sara began to wonder if marrying Jeremy was a mistake, and while visiting India on their honeymoon, Sara met Jai Singh (Manoj Bajpai), a handsome and sensitive widower living in Rajapur. Jai Singh, who speaks fluent English, soon strikes up a friendship with Sara that quickly grows into a romance, but both are aware of the transgressive nature of their love, and their affair takes a tragic turn, leaving its scars on all parties involved.

Movie
Fastest
6.9
2011

Fastest

What does it take to be the fastest? From award-winning filmmaker Mark Neale, comes Fastest, a spectacular maximum-speed, full-length documentary delving deep into the world of MotoGP™. This thrilling documentary, narrated by Ewan McGregor, highlights the thrills, spills and incredible commitment and courage the sport demands of it stars. With unprecedented behind-the-scenes access and never before seen angles, interviews and insight, this truly cinematic experience charts the exhilarating highs, crushing lows, career-threatening crashes and spectacular comebacks, including Rossi’s 41 days turn around to race following a leg shattering crash.

Movie
#5
7.2
1994

#5

Continuously modulating between animations with long exposures and snapshots enlarged across many film frames, #5 explores the relationship between image and time on the film strip. The images were made using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials and can be regarded as action painting with light.