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The Mayor of Hell

  • 1933
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  • 1h 30min
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James Cagney in The Mayor of Hell (1933)
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Cinco adolescentes, liderados por Jimmy Smith, son enviados a un reformatorio. El subdirector Patsy Gargan, un ex gángster, se enamora de la enfermera Dorothy y reforma el lugar. Sin embargo... Leer todoCinco adolescentes, liderados por Jimmy Smith, son enviados a un reformatorio. El subdirector Patsy Gargan, un ex gángster, se enamora de la enfermera Dorothy y reforma el lugar. Sin embargo, Thompson conspira para desacreditar a Gargan.Cinco adolescentes, liderados por Jimmy Smith, son enviados a un reformatorio. El subdirector Patsy Gargan, un ex gángster, se enamora de la enfermera Dorothy y reforma el lugar. Sin embargo, Thompson conspira para desacreditar a Gargan.

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    • Archie Mayo
    • Michael Curtiz
  • Guionistas
    • Edward Chodorov
    • Islin Auster
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    • James Cagney
    • Madge Evans
    • Arthur Byron
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    • Dirección
      • Archie Mayo
      • Michael Curtiz
    • Guionistas
      • Edward Chodorov
      • Islin Auster
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      • James Cagney
      • Madge Evans
      • Arthur Byron
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    James Cagney
    James Cagney
    • Patsy
    Madge Evans
    Madge Evans
    • Dorothy
    Arthur Byron
    Arthur Byron
    • Judge Gilbert
    Allen Jenkins
    Allen Jenkins
    • Mike
    Dudley Digges
    Dudley Digges
    • Thompson
    Frankie Darro
    Frankie Darro
    • Jimmy
    Sheila Terry
    Sheila Terry
    • Blonde with Mike
    Robert Barrat
    Robert Barrat
    • Fred Smith
    Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
    Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
    • Smoke
    • (as Farina)
    Harold Huber
    Harold Huber
    • Joe
    Dorothy Peterson
    Dorothy Peterson
    • Mrs. Smith
    G. Pat Collins
    G. Pat Collins
    • Brandon
    • (as George Pat Collins)
    Edwin Maxwell
    Edwin Maxwell
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    John Marston
    • Hopkins
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    8utgard14

    "They sent my first boy there and he came out a murderer!"

    Racketeer James Cagney takes over a reform school that's being run like a prison. With help from pretty nurse Madge Evans, he turns the place around and helps the boys get back on the right track. But the scummy guy that used to run the school is determined to destroy all the good work they've done, no matter what harm it does to the kids.

    Intense, gritty drama that tackles the issue of juvenile crime and how to deal with it. Strong writing with some good characters. Cagney's excellent in one of his best and probably most underrated films. The kid actors are all terrific and believable. Dudley Digges is a particularly evil villain. Backed up by a typically solid WB stable of supporting actors. Jaw-dropping climax is one of the best finishes to any movie of this decade. Remade as Crime School, with Humphrey Bogart and the Dead End Kids. That one's not bad but it's not nearly as powerful as this one.
    Sargebri

    Precursor to the Dead End Kids

    Five years before the film Dead End hit theaters, this film was produced. This was definitely a film that tried to show what reformatories were really like. In most cases, the kids who were sent there didn't become reformed, they only came out harder and moved on to bigger crimes. James Cagney is great in this early role as Patsy, the racketeer who tries to keep the kids from making some of the same mistakes that he did by making conditions better for the boys in the camp. Dudley Digges played the perfect villain in Thompson, the warden of the school. He pretty much showed how when the odds were against Thompson and his cronies that he was nothing more than a coward. Also Allen Jenkins, who ironically would appear a few years later in the aforementioned Dead End, provided a lot of the humor as Patsy's stooge "Uncle Mike". Too bad this little gem is rarely shown on television anymore or that it is currently not out on DVD.
    7raskimono

    WB sure knew how to make them

    This one of those social dramas that WB knew how to put together and were guaranteed boxoffice hits in the thirties. This early "dead end kids" are sent to a reform school where they are mistreated. Cagney, a gangster as part of a deal is appointed as the commissioner of the school. He doesn't take it seriously at first but he changes and makes the necessary changes to improve the lives of the boys. The idea is to let the boys rule and administer their community. Whether this is sound social reform is beyond my belief but it's a movie. It's a lot like Boys Town with a slight darker tone. A useless happy ending deluges what impact the scene prior hard but is still good. WB would later make this same movies with Bogart in the Cagney/fatherly role.
    7marcslope

    Cagney as Side Dish

    The great James Cagney, top-billed in big letters, doesn't show up till the movie's second third, and probably has less screen time than Dudley Digges, who plays the eee-vill reform-school potentate. But when Jimmy arrives, as a deputy commissioner of something-or-other out to reform reform schools, he slashes the air with his hands and jumps on the balls of his feet and spits out punchy Warners-First National dialogue with all the customary, and expected, panache. The psychology in this crisp antique, one of Warners' many efforts to assert its place as the "socially conscious" studio, doesn't run deep: Digges is bad just because the script requires him to be, and there's the quaint notion that juvenile delinquents will turn into swell kids if they're just given a dash of autonomy. But it's made in that spare, fast style that the studio specialized in, and it never bores. Frankie Darro, who got into all kinds of onscreen trouble during a brief tenure as Warners' favorite Rotten Street Kid, is an ideal JD -- a handsome, charismatic toughie with a pug nose and a hate-filled stare that could wither steel. No kid actor today can touch him.
    6Doylenf

    Tough melodrama from the Warner mill...

    JAMES CAGNEY gets top billing in THE MAYOR OF HELL but it's really little tough guy FRANKIE DARRO who has the central role of a boy from the slums who lands in a reform school run by a ruthless warden (DUDLEY DIGGES) interested only in punishing the boys while he cooks the books. Darro makes quite an impression with his hostile looks, locking glances with the warden at every turn with eyes blazing with hatred.

    It takes the entrance of Cagney to change things around, an ex- gangster who has been deputized to help run things at the reformatory and who sympathizes with the plights of the boys, especially Darro who reminds him of his own tough days as a street punk. JAMES CAGNEY puts all of his usual energy into the role of the do-gooder who changes things around, along with cooperative Nurse Griffith (MADGE EVANS), and is there when the going gets tough and things revert back to their nasty ways during his brief absence.

    The last half-hour of the film gets a little too melodramatic as the kids take matters into their own hands after the warden causes the death of one of their fellow inmates. There's a climactic scene where they put him on trial. When he escapes their clutches by jumping out a window, a chase follows and a barn is burned down forcing him to jump to his death. The plot contrivances that follow are hard to swallow, but for Jimmy and Madge Evans at least there's a happy ending.

    ALLEN JENKINS is a welcome presence for comic relief but the tone of the film borders on heavy prison melodrama almost all the way.

    DUDLEY DIGGES plays the unsympathetic role of the sadistic warden fairly well, but I still think of him as the befuddled detective who has a hard time pinning down RAFFLES (Ronald Colman) in that Scotland Yard yarn.

    For Cagney fans, this is a glimpse of him at his talented best in an early role. Archie Mayo directs the project in his brisk, no nonsense Warner style.

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      Jimmy and his gang go into a tobacco shop, and he orders some "Navy Twist" for his "old man." Also known as Navy tobacco, Navy cut, and Navy flake, the tobacco is twisted into a roll. For smoking, a slice (called a "twist" or "curly") is cut off and used in a pipe or sometimes to make a cigarette. Eventually, all twisted or pressed tobacco was called "Navy."
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      When Dorothy goes into her office and locks Patsy out, there is a table outside the door on which four books are resting. In the next shot, a closeup of the table top, there are only two books.
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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 24 de junio de 1933 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Idiomas
      • Inglés
      • Italiano
      • Yidis
    • También se conoce como
      • Reform School
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, Estados Unidos(Studio)
    • Productora
      • Warner Bros.
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      • 1h 30min(90 min)
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