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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.
- Islin Auster (story Reform School), Edward Chodorov
The Mayor of Hell: Directed by Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz. With James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins. Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
- 1933-06-24
Warners must have found The Mayor of Hell a useful property, for it was remade twice, as Crime School (1938) and Hell's Kitchen (1939). The disc contains trailers for all three movies. For more information about The Mayor of Hell, visit Warner Video. To order The Mayor of Hell, go to TCM Shopping.
- Archie Mayo
- James Cagney
Summaries. 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.
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Movies. The Mayor of Hell. By Michael Sragow. February 11, 2013. This social melodrama-cum-crime picture, from 1933, coined its own subgenre, the reform-school movie.
The Mayor of Hell is a 1933 crime drama film directed by Archie Mayo. Jimmy Smith (Frankie Darro) is a teenaged delinquent and the leader of a gang of teenaged delinquents. When an attempt at a snatch-and-grab robbery of a candy shop gets Jimmy and his gang arrested, most of them get sent to reform school.