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The Mayor of Hell

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Original title

The Mayor of Hell

Year

1933

Running time

90 min.

Country

United States

Director

Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz

Screenwriter

Edward Chodorov. Story: Islin Auster

Cast

Music

Leo F. Forbstein, Bernhard Kaun

Cinematography

Barney McGill, Merrit B. Gerstad (B&W)

Producer

The Vitaphone Corporation, Warner Bros.

Genre

Drama | Crime. Social Drama. Melodrama. Teen/coming-of-age

Synopsis

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. 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 Gargan...

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