Call a Messenger (1939)

8.0/10 65 min Crime Drama

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.

Cast

Billy Halop

Jimmy Hogan

Huntz Hall

'Pig'

Robert Armstrong

Kirk Graham

Mary Carlisle

Marge Hogan

Anne Nagel

Frances O'Neill

Victor Jory

Ed Hogan

Buster Crabbe

Chuck Walsh

El Brendel

'Baldy'

Jimmy Butler

Bob Prichard

George Offerman, Jr.

Big Lip

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