Sleepers East (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.
- Released
- 1934-01-01
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime, Mystery
- Runtime
- 69 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kenneth MacKenna
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
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)