Mug Town

Mug Town (1942) is a drama, comedy film directed by Ray Taylor rated 8.5/10.

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.

Cast

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