Michael Shayne

Michael Shayne1960

Michael "Mike" Shayne is a fictional private detective character created during the late 1930s by writer Brett Halliday, a pseudonym of Davis Dresser. The character appeared in a series of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan for Twentieth Century Fox, … more »



Adam Quick:
Thanks a lot, Mike, for paying my fine, but I am not budging.

Tim Rourke:
Adam, be reasonable for a change.

Adam Quick:
I am going into that courtroom, I'm going to have a jury trial and I'm going to let the whole world know what that chiselin' Graves did to me. If they don't give me a good conduct medal for workin' him over, I'm takin' it to the Supreme Court.

Michael Shayne:
All right, we don't blame you for being sore.

Tim Rourke:
But staying in jail is no good for you. It's no good for Dusa.

Adam Quick:
It's the principal of the thing! Has an artist got any rights or hasn't he? Thoreau went to jail for what he believe in. Mahatma Gandhi went to jail for what he believed in, didn't he? Okay, what's good enough for them is good enough for me.

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