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Call a Messenger (1939)

Directed by Arthur Lubin

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.

Rated NR | Length 65 minutes

Actors

Billy Halop | Huntz Hall | Robert Armstrong | Mary Carlisle | Anne Nagel | Victor Jory | Buster Crabbe | El Brendel | Jimmy Butler | George Offerman Jr.