Mug Town (1942)
IT THRILLS! IT SOCKS! IT'S SWELL!
60 min
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.
- Release date
- December 18, 1942
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Billy Halop as Tommy Davis
- Huntz Hall as Pig
- Grace McDonald as Norene Steward
- Bernard Punsly as Ape
- Gabriel Dell as String
- Edward Norris as Clinker
- Virginia Brissac as Mrs. Bell
- Tommy Kelly as Steve
- Dick Hogan as Don Bell
- Jed Prouty as Mack Steward
Crew
- Ray Taylor · Director
- Brenda Weisberg · Writer
- Lewis Amster · Writer
- Harold Tarshis · Writer
- Henry Sucher · Writer
- Jack MacKenzie · Cinematographer
- Edward Curtiss · Editor