Mug Town

IT THRILLS! IT SOCKS! IT'S SWELL!

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Action
Drama
Crime
Comedy

Overview

Steve Bell, Tommy, Pig, Ape, and String are run of town. Steve, while hopping a freight card and trying to avoid the brakeman, is killed. The boys meet Steve's mother, Alice Bell and Tommy is given a job in the storage garage which she owns jointly with Mack Steward. Steve's brother Don Bell is working with some gangsters by tipping them off on valuable merchandise that can be hijacked. Pig, Ape and String overhear Don's plans to use Tommy as the fall guy in the next hijacking.

Keywords

death of brother
dead end kids
racketeer
little tough guys

Details

Status: Released
Release date: December 18, 1942
Original language: English
Spoken languages: English
Countries: United States of America
Production: Universal Pictures,Universal Pictures Corporation
Cast: Bernard Punsly,Dick Hogan,Syd Saylor,Billy Halop,Gabriel Dell,Evelyn Cook,Tommy Kelly,Clara Blore,Harry Tenbrook,Johnny Walshand 23 more
Director: Ray Taylor
Writer: Henry Sucher,Harold Tarshis,Charles Grayson,Lewis Amster,Brenda Weisberg
Cinematography: Jack MacKenzie
Music: Frank Skinner
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0036176