Call a Messenger
“THE DEAD END KIDS versus THE LITTLE TOUGH GUYS Clashing head on...for control of the gutter!”
1939•NR•1h 5m•8.0•Released
CrimeDrama
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.
Director
Arthur Lubin
Writer
Arthur T. Horman
Languages
English
Studio
Universal Pictures
Cast
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
Production
Company
Universal Pictures
Producer
Ken Goldsmith
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