THE MAYOR OF HELL [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1933
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
• Plot: You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Politicos award gangster Patsy Gargan a cushy job as a honcho at a woefully run boys reform school. No experience necessary. No expectations. No problems.; ; But firebrand Patsy (James Cagney) runs up against plenty of problems in this impassioned Depression-era mix of social consience filmmaking and the gangster genre. He sees something in the kids – himself. He, too, was raised in the slums. And he decides to defy everyone to give the kids opportunities he never had. Yet all the good Patsy does could collapse when he missteps into his life of crime. This punchy tale was retold in films featuring the Dead End Kids: Crime School (with Humphrey Bogart) and Hell's Kitchen.
• Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Dudley Digges, Frankie Darro, Sheila Terry, Robert Barrat, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Harold Huber, Dorothy Peterson, G. Pat Collins, Edwin Maxwell, John Marston, William V. Mong, Mickey Bennett, Sidney Miller, Hobart Cavanaugh, George Humbert, Raymond Borzage, George Offerman Jr., Charles E. Cane, Beaudine Anderson, James Donlan, Sam Finn, Ben Hendricks Jr., Gladden James, Wilfred Lucas, Wallace MacDonald, Larry McGrath, Jack McHugh, Bert Moorhouse, Adrian Morris, Frank O'Connor, Henry Otho, Bob Perry, Hector Sarno, Andy Shuford, William H. Strauss, Charles Sullivan, Ben Taggart, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones, Sailor Vincent, Huey White, Charles C. Wilson, Harry Wilson, Dorothea Wolbert, Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, Edward Chodorov, Islin Auster
• Director: Archie Mayo
• Runtime: 1:30
• Media Format: Movie