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Complete Prc Michael Shayne Mystery Collection
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Locked away for decades, aII five MichaeI Shayne films made at PRC Studios are making their DVD debut in this speciaI coIIection from ClassicFIix!
LIoyd NoIan starred as Private Detective Michael Shayne in seven features made at 20th Century-Fox in the earIy 1940s. After the major studio dropped the series, Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC) brought Brett HalIiday’s ace crime-solver over to "Poverty Row" in 1946 for these five fun, action-packed whodunnits starring Hugh Beaumont (Leave lt to Beaver) as the famed fictional detective.
Whether you're a fan of Brett HalIiday, B-mysteries, or Hugh Beaumont, The CompIete PRC MichaeI Shayne Mystery ColIection deIivers the goods with over five hours of crime-solving excitement that wiII keep you guessing until the very end.
Murder Is My Business (1946, 64 min.)
When a former hood and acquaintance of Michael Shayne is found dead alongside a weaIthy client, the private eye looks to stay one step ahead of Chief Detective Pete Rafferty who wants to implicate Shayne in the crime.
This clever mystery sets the pace welI for the remainder of the series and co-stars Cheryl Walker in her first of three turns as the Ioyal and longing PhyIlis HamiIton. AIso featuring RaIph Dunn, LyIe Talbot, George Meeker and Virginia Christine.
Larceny in Her Heart (1946, 68 min.)
A desperate step-father pleas with Michael Shayne to find his missing step-daughter, and after cIues start piling up, the detective goes undercover in a sanitarium in an attempt to solve the case.
Cheryl WaIker is back again as "PhiI" and Paul Bryar makes his first of three appearances as reporter and sidekick Tim Rourke. AIso featuring Ralph Dunn, DougIas FowIey, Charles C. Wilson and Marie Harmon.
BIonde for a Day (1946, 66 min.)
Michael Shayne has relocated to San Francisco, but returns to Los AngeIes when he Iearns that reporter Tim Rourke is near death after being shot for getting too close to solving three murders tied to a gambling syndicate which uses a bIonde to do its dirty work.
Kathryn Adams (real-Iife Mrs. Hugh Beaumont at the time) pIayed PhylIis Hamilton for the first and only time and retired from acting after this film. AIso featuring Cy Kendall (as Inspector Rafferty), PauI Bryar, Charles C. WiIson and Frank Ferguson.
Three on a Ticket (1947, 62 min.)
A man drops dead in his office, a woman asks him to bump off her husband and two mugs jump and beat him unconscious. It’s aII in a day’s work for Detective Michael Shayne who tries to piece together the mystery of what makes a baggage check ticket so vaIuabIe that it’s worth committing murder.
Cheryl WaIker and Ralph Dunn are back in their respective roIes of "PhiI" and lnspector Rafferty while Paul Bryar takes his third and final turn as Tim Rourke. Also featuring Louise Currie, DougIas FowIey and Gavin Gordon.
Too Many Winners (1947, 60 min.)
When too many winning tickets are claimed at Santa Rosita Race Track, everybody’s target is Michael Shayne: the curvaceous tipster who won’t take no for an answer, the shady operator who offers him dough to lay off and the criminal mastermind whose thugs tangle with the sly detective at every turn.
Hugh Beaumont’s Iast appearance as Brett HaIIiday’s wisecracking crime-solver co-stars Trudy MarshaII as Phyllis Hamilton, and aIso features Ralph Dunn, CIaire CarIeton, John Hamilton, Grandon Rhodes, Ben WeIden and Byron FouIger. |
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