The Mayor of Hell
1933·United States·90 min.
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Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and, inspired by her, takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson, to conceal his years of graft, needs a quick way to discredit Gargan...
CastJames Cagney·Madge Evans·Arthur Byron·Allen Jenkins·Dudley Digges·Frankie Darro·Sheila Terry·Robert Barrat·Allen 'Farina' Hoskins·Harold Huber·Dorothy Peterson·Pat Collins·Edwin MaxwellShow all
Original titleThe Mayor of Hell