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Mug Town
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Mug Town

Dec 18, 1942
0h 59m
★ 8.5

IT THRILLS! IT SOCKS! IT'S SWELL!

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.

Genres

Drama
Comedy
Crime

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

Mug Town Trailers

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Cast

Billy Halop

Tommy Davis

Billy Halop

Huntz Hall

Pig

Huntz Hall

Grace McDonald

Norene Steward

Grace McDonald

Bernard Punsly

Ape

Bernard Punsly

Gabriel Dell

String

Gabriel Dell

Edward Norris

Clinker

Edward Norris

Virginia Brissac

Mrs. Bell

Virginia Brissac

Tommy Kelly

Steve

Tommy Kelly

Dick Hogan

Don Bell

Dick Hogan

Jed Prouty

Mack Steward

Jed Prouty

Murray Alper

Shorty

Murray Alper

Paul Fix

Marco

Paul Fix

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