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Call a Messenger (1939)
Directed by Arthur Lubin
“THE DEAD END KIDS versus THE LITTLE TOUGH GUYS Clashing head on...for control of the gutter!”
Crime, Drama · 1h 05m
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.
Cast
Billy Halop
Huntz Hall
Robert Armstrong
Mary Carlisle
Anne Nagel
Victor Jory
Buster Crabbe
El Brendel
Jimmy Butler
George Offerman, Jr.
Crew
- Director
- Arthur Lubin
- Screenplay
- Arthur T. Horman
- Director of Photography
- Elwood Bredell
- Editor
- Charles Maynard
- Producer
- Ken Goldsmith
Details
- Release date
- 1939-11-03
- Runtime
- 1h 05m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures