Time to Kill

Time to Kill (1942)Cast and Crew

Movie"Mike Shayne in a killer-diller of a chiller-diller... with no time out to count the corpses!"

Cast

L
Lloyd Nolan
as Michael Shayne
H
Heather Angel
as Myrle Davis
D
Doris Merrick
as Linda Conquest Murdock
E
Ethel Griffies
as Mrs. Murdock
R
Ralph Byrd
as Lou Venter, bodyguard
R
Richard Lane
as Lt. Breeze
S
Sheila Bromley
as Lois Morny
M
Morris Ankrum
as Alexander Morny
P
Phyllis Kennedy
as Ina Smithers
J
James Seay
as Leslie Murdock
C
Charles Williams
as Dentist
S
Syd Saylor
as Mailman
L
Lester Sharpe
as Elisha Washburn
W
William Pawley
as Hensch
P
Paul Guilfoyle
as Manager, Florence Apartments

Crew

B
Brett Halliday
Characters
R
Raymond Chandler
Novel
E
Emil Newman
Original Music Composer
C
Charles G. Clarke
Director of Photography
S
Sol M. Wurtzel
Producer
H
Herbert I. Leeds
Director

Michael Shayne Collection

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.