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Shoe Shine Boy
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Shoe Shine Boy

Dec 25, 1943
0h 15m
★ 7.0

Overview

A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.

Genres

Drama
Music

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Mel Bryant

Shoeshine Boy

Mel Bryant

Sam Levene

Lucky

Sam Levene

Walter Catlett

Garry Goff

Walter Catlett

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Walter Soderling

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

Walter Soderling

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