Call a Messenger (1939)

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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Call a Messenger

Casting arrow_drop_down

Billy Halop
Billy Halop
as Jimmy Hogan
Huntz Hall
Huntz Hall
as 'Pig'
Robert Armstrong
Robert Armstrong
as Kirk Graham
Mary Carlisle
Mary Carlisle
as Marge Hogan
Anne Nagel
Anne Nagel
as Frances O'Neill
Victor Jory
Victor Jory
as Ed Hogan
Buster Crabbe
Buster Crabbe
as Chuck Walsh
El Brendel
El Brendel
as 'Baldy'
Jimmy Butler
Jimmy Butler
as Bob Prichard
George Offerman, Jr.
George Offerman, Jr.
as Big Lip
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Ken Goldsmith
Ken Goldsmith
Producer
Arthur Lubin
Arthur Lubin
Director
Arthur T. Horman
Arthur T. Horman
Screenplay
Jack Otterson
Jack Otterson
Art Direction
Vera West
Vera West
Costume Design
Charles Maynard
Charles Maynard
Editor
Russell A. Gausman
Russell A. Gausman
Set Decoration
Elwood Bredell
Elwood Bredell
Director of Photography
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