User Comment Cr@p
Is it possible to write about films like this without using every boring old cliche ever used in the last 60+ years of writing about films like this? "A nice taut little B-picture" - Please! - "[A] splendid example of those second-feature low-budgeters that Hollywood did so well in the great studio era." Horrible! What complete crapola. I can smell the body odour from here.
Please learn to write SOMETHING original, please learn to think for yourself before posting some boring, useless, Willam Everson-like user comment.
For the record, Sleepers West is another piece of half-arsed malarkey ground out by the great studio system to give lonely people something to look at when they didn't want to go home immediately following the first feature. It's no better and no worse than a decent episode of Rockford Files. It's occasionally amusing, sometimes not entirely intentionally so, it has some capable and even entertaining performances and an interesting first and second act. The third act and the ending are an insult to the intelligence of even the most guiless lover of half-arsed malarkey so you are advised to turn it off when the car breaks down and imagine your own resolution. That this is one of the better Michael Shayne movies says little about the quality of this film and volumes about the quality of the others.
"A nice taut little B-picture"? Whatever.