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Call a Messenger

Call a Messenger

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 3, 1939

Runtime

1h 5m

Genres

Crime, Drama

Original Title

Call a Messenger

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Director

Arthur Lubin

Description

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.