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Call a Messenger poster

Call a Messenger (1939)

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

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.

Release: 1939-11-03
Runtime: 65 min
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'
Jimmy Butler
Jimmy Butler
Bob Prichard
George Offerman, Jr.
George Offerman, Jr.
Big Lip