The Man Who Wouldn't Die

An Empty Grave... A Cunning, Gunning Ghost... And Michael Shane!

6.519421h 5mReleased

Crime

Mystery

Overview

A man believed to be dead and buried escapes from his grave and returns to the scene of the crime seeking revenge.

StatusReleased

Release Date1942-04-27

Runtime1h 5m

LanguagesEnglish

CountriesUnited States of America

Keywords

detective

stepdaughter

stepmother

Michael Shayne Collection

12 Films

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The 1940 film Michael Shayne, Private Detective is the first in a series of twelve movies. Lloyd Nolan starred as Shayne through 1942, until the series was dropped by Twentieth Century Fox and picked up by PRC. At that point, Hugh Beaumont took over the role in five films released in 1946.

Michael Shayne: Private Detective

1940

Sleepers West

1941

Dressed to Kill

1941

Blue, White and Perfect

1942

The Man Who Wouldn't Die

1942

Just Off Broadway

1942

Time to Kill

1942

Murder Is My Business

1946

Larceny in Her Heart

1946

Blonde for a Day

1946

Three on a Ticket

1947

Too Many Winners

1947

Stream

fuboTV

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Cast & Crew

Lloyd Nolan

as Michael Shayne

Marjorie Weaver

as Catherine Wolff

Helene Reynolds

as Anna Wolff

Henry Wilcoxon

as Dr. Haggard

Richard Derr

as Roger Blake

Paul Harvey

as Dudley Wolff

Billy Bevan

as Phillips

Olin Howland

as Jonathan Meek

Robert Emmett Keane

as Alfred Dunning

LeRoy Mason

as Zorah Bey

Reviews

CinemaSerf

Dec 6, 2023

6/10

We start with a sinister scene in the grounds on an eerie country mansion. A burial - but of whom, and why in the dead of night? Well, it doesn't take us long to find out why and soon daughter of the house "Cathy" (Marjorie Weaver) engages the services of the sleuthing "Shayne" (Lloyd Nolan) to find out just what is going on. Have Burke & Hare move…

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