The Mayor of Hell poster

Director: Archie Mayo | Starring: James Cagney, Frankie Darro, Dudley Digges, Madge Evans

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.