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Call a Messenger

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

8 average rating
8
English / 65 MIN. / 1939

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Billy HalopHuntz HallRobert ArmstrongMary CarlisleAnne NagelVictor JoryBuster CrabbeEl BrendelJimmy ButlerGeorge Offerman, Jr.

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