Sleepers East (1934)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

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)

Director & Crew

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