Call a Messenger

Call a Messenger

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

NR 1939 · 65 min · ★ 8.0 · Crime, Drama

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.

Directed by Arthur Lubin · Written by Arthur T. Horman

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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

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