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Release Date:
December 18, 1942
Original Title:
Mug Town
Genres:
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Production Companies:
Universal Pictures
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 59
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.
Art Direction:
Harold H. MacArthur
Jack Otterson
Assistant Director:
Charles S. Gould
Associate Producer:
Ken Goldsmith
Costume Design:
Vera West
Director:
Ray Taylor
Director of Photography:
Jack MacKenzie
Editor:
Edward Curtiss
Music:
Hans J. Salter
Music Director:
Hans J. Salter
Original Music Composer:
Frank Skinner
Original Story:
Charles Grayson
Screenplay:
Harold Tarshis
Henry Sucher
Lewis Amster
Brenda Weisberg
Set Decoration:
Russell A. Gausman
Edward R. Robinson
Sound Director:
Bernard B. Brown
Sound Engineer:
Paul Neal
Stunts:
Eddie Parker
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