Sleepers East 90 years old

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.

Credits

Sleepers East Cast

Name Character
J. Carrol Naish He was 37, 77 years old when he died as Carl Izzard
Francis Ford He was 52, 72 years old when he died as Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones He was 27, 56 years old when he died as Porter (uncredited)
Douglas Fowley He was 22, 86 years old when he died as Gangster (uncredited)
Wynne Gibson She was 28, 81 years old when she died as Lena Karelson
Joseph Crehan He was 50, 82 years old when he died as Conductor (uncredited)
Harvey Stephens He was 32, 85 years old when he died as Martin Knox
Preston Foster He was 33, 69 years old when he died as Jason Everett
Roger Imhof He was 58, 82 years old when he died as MacGowan
Suzanne Kaaren She was 21, 92 years old when she died as Dixie
Howard Lally as Jack Wentworth
Mona Barrie She was 24, 54 years old when she died as Ada Robillard
Morgan Wallace He was 52, 72 years old when he died as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)

Sleepers East Crew

Name Department
Duncan Cramer as Production Design. He was 32 (78) years old when He died Art
Sol M. Wurtzel as Producer. He was 53 (77) years old when He died Production
Lester Cole as Writer. He was 29 (81) years old when He died Writing
Ernest Palmer as Director of Photography. He was 48 (92) years old when He died Camera
Frederick Nebel as Novel. He was 30 (63) years old when He died Writing
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Sleepers East (90 years)

  • Release day: Monday, January 01, 1934
  • Runtime: 69 minutes