Sleepers East
01/01/1934
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.
Movie Information
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)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
as Porter (uncredited)
Morgan Wallace
as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
