The Mayor of Hell
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The Mayor of Hell
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 25, 2008
- Originally Released: 1933
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Cagney, Madge Evans, Allen Jenkins, Arthur Byron, Dudley Digges & Sheila Terry | |
Performer: | Frankie Darro, Robert Barrat, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Harold Huber, Dorothy Peterson & Edwin Maxwell | |
Directed by | Archie Mayo | |
Edited by | Jack Killifer | |
Screenplay by | Edward Chodorov | |
Art Direction by | Esdras Hartley | |
Director of Photography: | Barney McGill |
Entertainment Reviews:
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User Ratings: 332
Rating: 4/5 --
An awkward yet ultimately enjoyable mix of gangster drama and social commentary.
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Product Description:
Jimmy Cagney stars in this surprisingly progressive story of a teenage gang sent to reform school. There, the kids butt heads with their cruel warden, Thompson, and suffer at the hands of the corrupt institution. But when a mob figure, played by Cagney, is appointed Deputy Commissioner, he helps turn the system upside down. Now the kids are running things, and Thompson will have to pay! A unique film for the time, MAYOR OF HELL was heavily influenced by New Deal-era rhetoric.
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CAGNEYS BIGGEST SLEEPER!
Movie Lover: ROBERT VELEZ from
BRONX, NY US -- August, 8, 2014
THE MAYOR OF HELL IS ONE OF JAMES CAGNEY BEST FILMS! JIMMY DELIVERS THE GOODIES IN THIS FILM AS HIS NATURAL STYLE OF ACTING TAKES OVER THE FILM! MADE IN 1933, CAGNEY, AT THIS TIME, WAS KNOWN FOR HIS GANGSTER ROLES BUT FOR THIS MOVIE-HE ACTUALLY PLAYS A PRINCIPAL! IMAGINE THAT! THIS MOVIE WAS LATER REMADE AS CRIME SCHOOL WITH HUMPHREY BOGART BUT IT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE MAYOR OF HELL! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! CAGNEY IS THE BEST!
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 119,479
- UPC: 883929002719
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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