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The mayor of Hell [videorecording (DVD)].

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Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment : distributed by Warner Home Video c2008.

Warner Bros. Pictures gangsters

Video Difference legacy collection.

1419863258 (Warner Bros. Pictures Gangsters Collection vol. 3)

Alternate title:

Reform school [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (90 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on a story [Reform school] by Islin Auster.

Videodisc release of the 1933 motion picture.

Special features: Commentary by film historian Greg Mank ; Warner night at the movies 1933 ; Short subjects gallery: vintage newsreel, musical short "The audition," classic cartoon "The organ grinder," trailers of "The mayor of Hell" and 1933's "The kennel murder case"; bonus trailers of the storyline-linked "Crime school" and "Hell's kitchen."

Standard version. Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition.

Alternate title information provided by IMDb = Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com).

In English with optional English (SDH) or French subtitles.

Screenplay by Edward Chodorov ; directed by Archie Mayo.

James Cagney with Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Dudley Digges and Frankie Darro.

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Politicos award gangster Patsy Gargan a cushy job as a honcho at a woefully run boys reform school. No experience necessary. No expectations. No problems. But firebrand Patsy (James Cagney) runs up against plenty of problems in this impassioned Depression-era mix of social conscience filmmaking and the gangster genre. He sees something in the kids - himself. He, too, was raised in the slums. And he decides to defy everyone to give the kids opportunities he never had. Yet all the good Patsy does could collapse when he missteps into his life of crime. This punchy tale was retold in films featuring the Dead End Kids: Crime School (with Humphrey Bogart) and Hell's Kitchen."--Container.

Gangster films.

Juvenile deliquency films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Auster, Islin. Reform school.

Mayo, Archie L., 1891-1968.

Cagney, James, 1899-1986.

Evans, Madge, 1909-

Byron, Arthur, 1872-1943.

Jenkins, Allen, 1900-1974.

Digges, Dudley, 1879-1947.

Darro, Frankie, 1918-1976.

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