--- title: 'Sleepers West (1941)' type: 'film' director: 'Eugene Forde' released: '1941-01-01' genres: - 'Drama' - 'Crime' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/sleepers-west-1941' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034199/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Sleepers West (1941) 1941 · Drama, Crime · United States ## Synopsis Sleepers West is a 1941 American mystery drama film directed by Eugene Forde and starring Lloyd Nolan, Lynn Bari and Mary Beth Hughes. This second entry in 20th Century-Fox's Michael Shayne series was a remake of the 1934 Fox romantic drama Sleepers East from the novel Sleepers East (1933) by Frederick Nebel. The film Michael Shayne - Private Detective (1940) was the first in a series of 12 films. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century-Fox and picked up by PRC. In the PRC series, Hugh Beaumont played Shayne. ## Credits - **Director:** [Eugene Forde](https://cinepixo.com/people/eugene-forde) - **Screenplay:** [Brett Halliday](https://cinepixo.com/people/brett-halliday) - **Original Music Composer:** [Cyril J. Mockridge](https://cinepixo.com/people/cyril-j-mockridge) ## Cast - [George Chandler](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-chandler) - [Fred Toones](https://cinepixo.com/people/fred-toones) - [Harry Hayden](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-hayden) - [Ferike Boros](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferike-boros) - [Mantan Moreland](https://cinepixo.com/people/mantan-moreland) - [Lloyd Nolan](https://cinepixo.com/people/lloyd-nolan) - [Edward Brophy](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-brophy) - [Mary Beth Hughes](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-beth-hughes) - [Lynn Bari](https://cinepixo.com/people/lynn-bari) - [Louis Jean Heydt](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-jean-heydt) - [Sam McDaniel](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-mcdaniel) - [Don Costello](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-costello) - [Syd Saylor](https://cinepixo.com/people/syd-saylor) - [Don Douglas](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-douglas) - [James Flavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-flavin) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/sleepers-west-1941 Film facts: Wikidata (Q17035457); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.