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Sleepers East

1934 Directed by Kenneth MacKenna

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.

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Wynne Gibson

Wynne Gibson

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Lena Karelson

Preston Foster

Preston Foster

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Jason Everett

Mona Barrie

Mona Barrie

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Ada Robillard

Harvey Stephens

Harvey Stephens

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Martin Knox

Roger Imhof

Roger Imhof

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MacGowan

J. Carrol Naish

J. Carrol Naish

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Carl Izzard

Suzanne Kaaren

Suzanne Kaaren

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Dixie

69 minutes

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