Sleepers East

Sleepers East

69 mins | Crime, Comedy, Mystery | Jan. 1, 1934

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.

Sleepers East

69 mins | Crime, Comedy, Mystery | Jan. 1, 1934

Sleepers East
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.
Producers Fox Film Corporation
Original title Sleepers East
Directors Kenneth MacKenna
Writers Frederick Nebel, Lester Cole

Cast

Wynne Gibson

as Lena Karelson

Preston Foster

as Jason Everett

Mona Barrie

as Ada Robillard

Harvey Stephens

as Martin Knox

Roger Imhof

as MacGowan

J. Carrol Naish

as Carl Izzard

Suzanne Kaaren

as Dixie

Howard Lally

as Jack Wentworth

Joseph Crehan

as Conductor (uncredited)

Marianne Edwards

as Baby (uncredited)

Francis Ford

as Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)

Douglas Fowley

as Gangster (uncredited)

Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

as Porter (uncredited)

Morgan Wallace

as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)