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.

• Archie MayoDirector
• Edward ChodorovScreenplay

• James CagneyRichard 'Patsy' Gargan
• Madge EvansDorothy Griffith
• Frankie DarroJames 'Jimmie' Smith
• Dudley DiggesThompson
• Arthur ByronJudge H.J. Gilbert
• Allen JenkinsMike
• Sheila TerryBlonde with Mike
• Robert BarratFred Smith
• Allen 'Farina' HoskinsJoliet "Smoke" Hemingway
• Harold HuberJoe
• Dorothy PetersonMrs. Smith
• G. Pat CollinsBrandon