
Sleepers East
Original title: Sleepers East
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1/1/1934
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1h 9min

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Synopsis
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.
Direction: Kenneth MacKenna
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

Joseph Crehan
Conductor (uncredited)

Marianne Edwards
Baby (uncredited)

Francis Ford
Well-Wisher at Train Station (uncredited)

Douglas Fowley
Gangster (uncredited)