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Call a Messenger

Directed by Arthur Lubin
Not Rated
1939    65mCrime, Drama
6.2
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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 him 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 of Call a Messenger

  • Billy HalopJimmy Hogan
  • Huntz Hall'Pig'
  • Robert ArmstrongKirk 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
  • Arthur LubinDirector
  • Arthur T. HormanScreenplay
  • Ken GoldsmithProducer
  • Jack OttersonArt Direction
  • Russell A. GausmanSet Decoration
  • Elwood BredellDirector Of Photography
  • Vera WestCostume Design
  • Charles MaynardEditor

 

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Call a Messenger Trivia

Call a Messenger was released on November 3, 1939.

Call a Messenger was directed by Arthur Lubin.

Call a Messenger has a runtime of 65 min.

Call a Messenger was produced by Ken Goldsmith.

The key characters in Call a Messenger are Jimmy Hogan (Billy Halop), 'Pig' (Huntz Hall), Kirk Graham (Robert Armstrong).

Call a Messenger is rated Not Rated.

Call a Messenger is a Crime, Drama film.

Call a Messenger has an audience rating of 6.2 out of 10.

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