Film

Call a Messenger

1939 · 1h 5m · Crime · Drama

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

IMDb

5.8

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.

Billy Halop

Jimmy Hogan

Huntz Hall

'Pig'

Robert Armstrong

Kirk Graham

Mary Carlisle

Marge Hogan

Anne Nagel

Frances O'Neill

Victor Jory

Ed Hogan

Buster Crabbe

Chuck Walsh

El Brendel

'Baldy'

Jimmy Butler

Bob Prichard

George Offerman, Jr.

Big Lip

• Arthur LubinDirector
• Arthur T. HormanScreenplay
• Ken GoldsmithProducer
• Elwood BredellDirector of Photography
• Charles MaynardEditor

Release date

November 3, 1939

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 5m

Rated

NR

Genres

Crime, Drama

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