Monday Morning Maybe

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Call a Messenger

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1939 | 65 min | Crime, Drama

Monday Morning Maybeearly rating

Why it’s a Monday Morning Maybe

With almost no lasting buzz and soft box office, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
One for crime fans and anyone who likes a story with emotional weight. Plenty of moral grey areas to chew on. A good follow-up to Angels with Dirty Faces or The Public Enemy.
The mood
Dark and gritty.
The pace
Quiet, then quietly devastating, at 1 hr 5 min. An easy one to fit in on a school night.
What might put you off
  • Made in 1939: an older pace and style.
  • Skip it if you like your heroes clean-cut.

A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his brother is released from prison, attempts to help his brother go straight. However, the two of them get mixed up with a local gangster, who has plans to start robbing post office branches and using the messenger and his brother to do it.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerBelow par

    Streaming release that reached a small audience so far

  • Buzz & cultural impactWeak

    About 790 people sought it out in the past year

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Cast & crew

Directed by Arthur Lubin

  • Billy HalopJimmy Hogan
  • Huntz Hall'Pig'
  • Robert ArmstrongKirk Graham
  • Mary CarlisleMarge Hogan
  • Anne NagelFrances O'Neill
  • Victor JoryEd Hogan
  • Buster CrabbeChuck Walsh
  • El Brendel'Baldy'
  • Jimmy ButlerBob Prichard
  • George Offerman, Jr.Big Lip