The Mayor of Hell

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

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  James Cagney

  Richard 'Patsy' Gargan
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  Madge Evans

  Dorothy Griffith
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  Frankie Darro

  James 'Jimmie' Smith
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  Dudley Digges

  Thompson
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  Arthur Byron

  Judge H.J. Gilbert
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  Allen Jenkins

  Mike
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  Sheila Terry

  Blonde with Mike
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  Robert Barrat

  Fred Smith
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  Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

  Joliet "Smoke" Hemingway
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  Harold Huber

  Joe