Shoe Shine Boy

Shoe Shine Boy

★ 7.3IMDb Score
Released:1943-12-25
Duration:15 min
Director:Walter Hart
Actors:Mel Bryant, Sam Levene, Walter Catlett, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Walter Soderling
Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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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