Call a Messenger

Call a Messenger (1939)

THE DEAD END KIDS versus THE LITTLE TOUGH GUYS Clashing head on...for control of the gutter!

  • Genre: Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-11-03
  • Runtime: 1h 5min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Universal Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Arthur Lubin

Summary

A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.

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  • Billy Halop

    as Jimmy Hogan
  • Huntz Hall

    as 'Pig'
  • Robert Armstrong

    as Kirk Graham
  • Mary Carlisle

    as Marge Hogan
  • Anne Nagel

    as Frances O'Neill
  • Victor Jory

    as Ed Hogan
  • Buster Crabbe

    as Chuck Walsh
  • El Brendel

    as 'Baldy'
  • Jimmy Butler

    as Bob Prichard
  • George Offerman, Jr.

    as Big Lip
Directing Arthur Lubin Director
Writing Arthur T. Horman Screenplay
Production Ken Goldsmith Producer
Camera Elwood Bredell Director of Photography
Editing Charles Maynard Editor
Art Jack Otterson Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Vera West Costume Design
Art Russell A. Gausman Set Decoration

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