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Shoe Shine Boy

Shoe Shine Boy

1943 · 15 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama, Music

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Directed by Walter Hart · Written by Lewis Jacobs

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