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Call a Messenger

1939
Directed byArthur Lubin
1h 5m

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.

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Billy HalopJimmy HoganHuntz Hall'Pig'
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Robert Armstrong
Kirk Graham
Mary CarlisleMarge Hogan
Anne NagelFrances O'Neill
Victor JoryEd Hogan
Buster CrabbeChuck Walsh
El Brendel'Baldy'
Jimmy ButlerBob Prichard
George Offerman, Jr.Big Lip
DETAILS
GENRES
CrimeDrama
STATUSReleased
RATING
NR

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