Movie: Shoe Shine Boy
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Garry Goff
Charlie the Bartender (uncredited)
Pawnbroker (uncredited)
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A teenaged shoeshine boy urgently tries to raise the remaining amount of money he needs to purchase a secondhand bugle before 6p.m.
Release Date
1943-12-25
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7
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