Shantytown is a 1943 American crime film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Olive Cooper.

The film stars Mary Lee, John Archer, Marjorie Lord, Harry Davenport, Billy Gilbert and Anne Revere.

[1][2][3] Liz Gorty, the daughter of the owners of a boarding house, takes a liking to a new married mechanic in town, Bill Allen.

He gets mixed up with a gang of thieves who force him to drive a getaway car in a robbery.

Knowing he has been framed, Bill goes into hiding and Liz uses her job at a radio station to get messages to him.