Overview - Sleepers East

Overview

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

• Name: Wynne Gibson

  Character: Lena Karelson

  Popularity: 0.5369

  

• Name: Preston Foster

  Character: Jason Everett

  Popularity: 0.8333

  

• Name: Mona Barrie

  Character: Ada Robillard

  Popularity: 0.3393

  

• Name: Harvey Stephens

  Character: Martin Knox

  Popularity: 0.6282

  

• Name: Roger Imhof

  Character: MacGowan

  Popularity: 0.3321

  

• Name: J. Carrol Naish

  Character: Carl Izzard

  Popularity: 0.6112

  

• Name: Suzanne Kaaren

  Character: Dixie

  Popularity: 0.2116

  

• Name: Howard Lally

  Character: Jack Wentworth

  Popularity: 0.1229