The Mayor of Hell

Jun 24, 1933

1h 30m

★ 7.2

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.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Richard 'Patsy' Gargan

James Cagney

Dorothy Griffith

Madge Evans

James 'Jimmie' Smith

Frankie Darro

Thompson

Dudley Digges

Judge H.J. Gilbert

Arthur Byron

Mike

Allen Jenkins

Blonde with Mike

Sheila Terry

Fred Smith

Robert Barrat

Joliet "Smoke" Hemingway

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Joe

Harold Huber

Mrs. Smith

Dorothy Peterson

Brandon

G. Pat Collins

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