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.

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)

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