The Mayor of Hell (1933)

Directors

Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz

Cast

James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins

The story

Racketeer Patsy Gargan is made deputy commissioner of a reform school as a reward from his corrupt political cronies. Initially, he has no interest in the school, but his sympathy for the boys, who are abused and battered by a brutal, heartless warden and his thuggish guards convince him to take the job seriously, as does an attractive resident nurse named Dorothy. Gargan sends Thompson, the superintendent, on vacation and, while he is gone, puts Dorothy's reform ideas into action.

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