Mug Town
“IT THRILLS! IT SOCKS! IT'S SWELL!”
1942•59m•8.5•Released
DramaComedyCrime
Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.
Director
Ray Taylor
Writer
Brenda Weisberg, Lewis Amster, Harold Tarshis, Henry Sucher
Languages
English
Studio
Universal Pictures
Cast
Billy Halop
Tommy Davis
Huntz Hall
Pig
Grace McDonald
Norene Steward
Bernard Punsly
Ape
Gabriel Dell
String
Edward Norris
Clinker
Virginia Brissac
Mrs. Bell
Tommy Kelly
Steve
Dick Hogan
Don Bell
Jed Prouty
Mack Steward
Murray Alper
Shorty
Paul Fix
Marco
Ernie Adams
Thief
John Bagni
Detective #2
Danny Beck
Man in Flophouse
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