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Call a Messenger
1939 0.0 (0 votes) 1h 5m
Genres
Crime Drama
Production Companies
Universal Pictures

Call a Messenger

THE DEAD END KIDS versus THE LITTLE TOUGH GUYS Clashing head on...for control of the gutter!

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Arthur Lubin

Screenplay: Arthur T. Horman

Producer: Ken Goldsmith

Director of Photography: Elwood Bredell

Top Cast

Billy Halop
Billy Halop

Jimmy Hogan

Huntz Hall
Huntz Hall

'Pig'

Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong

Kirk Graham

Mary Carlisle
Mary Carlisle

Marge Hogan

Anne Nagel
Anne Nagel

Frances O'Neill

Victor Jory
Victor Jory

Ed Hogan

Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe

Chuck Walsh

El Brendel
El Brendel

'Baldy'

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