Michael Shayne: Private Detective

Michael Shayne: Private Detective is a breezy, convoluted B-movie mystery, the first in the series of seven low-budget features based around pulp novel private detective Michael Shayne. Lloyd Nolan plays the gumshoe in all the films, the kind of wisecracking, perennially unruffled noir hero who provided the template for many a later Bogart role. Nolan gets to do a lot of heavy lifting here,