The Mayor of Hell (1933)
24/06/1933
Crime, Drama
1h 30m
- 72% (28 votes)
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Rips the Lid from an Inferno of Human Passions!
Overview
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
- Archie MayoDirector
- Edward ChodorovScreenplay
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$229,000
Keywords
- fire
- judge
- nurse
- youth gang
- gang
- solitary confinement
- juvenile delinquent
- reformatory
- pre-code
- reform school
- revolt
- sick child
- reformer
- racketeer
- escape attempt
- mob justice
- self government
- child mistreatment
- kindly guard
Top Billed Cast
James Cagney
Richard 'Patsy' Gargan
Madge Evans
Dorothy Griffith
Frankie Darro
James 'Jimmie' Smith
Dudley Digges
Thompson
Arthur Byron
Judge H.J. Gilbert
Allen Jenkins
Mike
Sheila Terry
Blonde with Mike
Robert Barrat
Fred Smith
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Joliet "Smoke" Hemingway
Harold Huber
Joe
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