Mug Town (1942)
IT THRILLS! IT SOCKS! IT'S SWELL!
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.
- Date of release
- 1942-12-18
- TMDB
- 8.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Ray Taylor
Casting
- Billy Halop — Tommy Davis
- Huntz Hall — Pig
- Grace McDonald — Norene Steward
- Bernard Punsly — Ape
- Gabriel Dell — String
- Edward Norris — Clinker
- Virginia Brissac — Mrs. Bell
- Tommy Kelly — Steve
- Dick Hogan — Don Bell
- Jed Prouty — Mack Steward
- Murray Alper — Shorty
- Paul Fix — Marco
Interesting facts
Mug Town is a 1942 Universal film starring the Dead End Kids and the Little Tough Guys.
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