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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.
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.
- (1.8K)
- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
- 1933-06-24
The Mayor of Hell attempts to fit James Cagney within a more socially conscious film concept, an idea resisted by the feisty star's unique screen personality. Patsy Gargan can't simultaneously be a corrupt city crook and also a softhearted, democracy-loving patriot, so the film never grabs our emotions.
- Archie Mayo
- James Cagney
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- Archie Mayo
- 90 min
- 16
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.
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. He is initially...
- Crime, Drama
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 ...
