Call a Messenger (1939)
THE DEAD END KIDS versus THE LITTLE TOUGH GUYS Clashing head on...for control of the gutter!
65 min
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.
- Release date
- November 3, 1939
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Billy Halop as Jimmy Hogan
- Huntz Hall as 'Pig'
- Robert Armstrong as Kirk Graham
- Mary Carlisle as Marge Hogan
- Anne Nagel as Frances O'Neill
- Victor Jory as Ed Hogan
- Buster Crabbe as Chuck Walsh
- El Brendel as 'Baldy'
- Jimmy Butler as Bob Prichard
- George Offerman Jr. as Big Lip
Crew
- Arthur Lubin · Director
- Arthur T. Horman · Writer
- Michael Kraike · Writer
- Sally Sandlin · Writer
- Elwood Bredell · Cinematographer
- Charles Maynard · Editor