Call a Messenger
6.3
“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.
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Cast
24 people
Billy Halop
Jimmy Hogan
Known for
Angels with Dirty Faces
Dead End
Huntz Hall
'Pig'
Known for
Angels with Dirty Faces
Dead End
Arthur Lubin
Arthur T Horman
Ken Goldsmith
Russell A. Gausman
Robert Armstrong
Kirk Graham
Known for
King Kong
The Most Dangerous Game
Michael Kraike
Jack Otterson
Mary Carlisle
Marge Hogan
Known for
Dance, Girl, Dance
Vera West
Sally Sandlin
Arthur Lubin Director · Arthur T. Horman Screenplay Elwood Bredell Cinematographer
Budget $83K · United States release November 3, 1939 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$83,000
Production
Universal Pictures
Production · Distribution
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · November 3, 1939
Theatrical
Denmark
April 26, 1941
Mexico
January 17, 1940
Portugal
February 21, 1944
Sweden
March 4, 1940
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