Shoe Shine Boy

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Shoe Shine Boy

1943

0h 15m

7.3(3 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

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

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5 members

Acting

Mel Bryant

Shoeshine Boy

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Acting

Sam Levene

Lucky

Acting

Walter Catlett

Garry Goff

Acting

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)

Acting

Walter Soderling

Pawnbroker (uncredited)

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