- HD 1080
- Runtime: 90m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Archie Mayo
- Stars: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Frankie Darro, Dudley Digges, Arthur Byron
- keywords: fire, judge, nurse, youth gang, gang, solitary confinement, juvenile delinquent, reformatory, pre-code, reform school, revolt, sick child, reformer, racketeer, escape attempt, mob justice, self government, child mistreatment, kindly guard
- Production_studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Slogan: Rips the Lid from an Inferno of Human Passions!
- The The Mayor of Hell is featured in the top rankings of 1933
- #3 in Top Drama Movies of 1933
- #2 in Top Crime Movies of 1933
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.
