Sleepers East
01/01/1934
1h 9m



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.
Cast


Wynne Gibson
Lena Karelson


Preston Foster
Jason Everett


Mona Barrie
Ada Robillard


Harvey Stephens
Martin Knox


Roger Imhof
MacGowan


J. Carrol Naish
Carl Izzard


Suzanne Kaaren
Dixie
Howard Lally
Jack Wentworth


Joseph Crehan
Conductor (uncredited)


Marianne Edwards
Baby (uncredited)


Francis Ford
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)


Douglas Fowley
Gangster (uncredited)


Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
Porter (uncredited)


Morgan Wallace
Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
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