The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Rips the Lid from an Inferno of Human Passions!
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.
- Date of release
- 1933-06-24
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (35)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Archie Mayo
Casting
- 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
- Dorothy Peterson — Mrs. Smith
- G. Pat Collins — Brandon
Interesting facts
The Mayor of Hell is a 1933 American pre-Code crime film from Warner Bros. Pictures starring James Cagney.
Production
The film originally went under the title Reform School. It took 36 days to shoot with a cost of $229,000.
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