James Cagney
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The Mayor of Hell. The Mayor of Hell is a 1933 American pre-Code Warner Brothers film starring James Cagney. The film was remade in 1938 as Crime School with Humphrey Bogart taking over James Cagney's role and Hell's Kitchen with Ronald Reagan in 1939. [1]
The Mayor of Hell: Directed by Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins. A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
- 1933-06-24
The Mayor of Hell comes with a full 'Warner's Night at the Movies' selection of extras that includes a 1933 newsreel excerpt (not too exciting), a musical short subject (The Audition), a Merrie Melodies cartoon (The Organ Grinder) and various trailers. Author Greg Mank provides a good, well-researched commentary.
- Archie Mayo
- James Cagney
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 ...
The Mayor of Hell. Patsy Gargan (James Cagney) is a cog in the wheel of corrupt politics and so is awarded a cushy job as deputy commissioner of a local reform school for criminally inclined boys ...
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- Archie Mayo
- Crime, Drama
- James Cagney
"The Mayor Of Hell" has the feel of an early Dead End Kids film, but with a much harder edge and very few light spots, preceding the first appearance of the Dead Enders by four years. James Cagney has a full screen opening credit, even though technically, the 'mayor' of the movie's title is actually portrayed by Frankie Darro, one of several ...
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Feb 11, 2013 · The Mayor of Hell. This social melodrama-cum-crime picture, from 1933, coined its own subgenre, the reform-school movie. It follows a bubbling melting pot of prepubescent gangsters who ...
