The Mayor of Hell
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Actor: Arthur Byron, James Cagney, Mickey Bennett, Raymond Borzage, Robert H. BarratBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of The Mayor of Hell
Movie Review: "Dudley Digges & Frankie Darro spar & it's a delight to watch"
Summary: 4 Stars
Warner Bros. Pictures presents "THE MAYOR OF HELL" (1933) (90 min/B&W) (Fully Restored/Dolby Digitally Remastered) -- Starring James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron, Allen Jenkins, Dudley Digges & Frankie Darro
Directed by Archie Mayo
The villain of the piece is Dudley Digges who is a grafting chiseler and a sanctimonious hypocrite to boot. Although Cagney is fine in the lead role as is Madge Evans the school nurse, the acting honors go to Dudley Digges. Hard to believe that the same man could portray the drunken, but kindly, one legged ship's surgeon in Mutiny on the Bounty. But Digges is a fine player and a joy to watch in every film he's in.
There was Frankie Darro before the "Dead End Kids", he epitomized angry desperate youth during those early depression years. Here he comes across with his usual hot-headed intensity, enough to make up for a nonthreatening small size. Notice Darro acts a lot like a younger version of Cagney, which is no accident since the story line depends on Cagney seeing a lot of himself among the brutalized boys of the reform school. Darro plays Jimmy Smith, the leader of a street gang sent to a reform school for petty crimes. The courtroom scene where he is sentenced, tries to define the characters of these boys by explaining the cause of their delinquent ways, Smith is no good because his dad is no good and so on. Frankie Darro, who got into all kinds of on screen trouble during a brief tenure as Warners' favorite Rotten Street Kid, is a scene stealer -- and a hate-filled stare that could wither steel. No other kid actor during that era could touch him.
THE MAYOR of HELL is fast paced with tight direction and is still entertaining after all these years
BIOS:
1. Archie Mayo
Date of Birth: 29 January 1891 - New York City, New York
Date of Death: 4 December 1968 - Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2. James Cagney [aka: James Francis Cagney]
Date of Birth: 17 July 1899 - New York City, New York
Date of Death: 30 March 1986 - Stanfordville, New York
3. Frankie Darro [aka: Frank Johnson]
Date of Birth: 22 December 1917 - Chicago, Illinois
Date of Death: 25 December 1976 - Huntington Beach, California
4. Dudley Digges
Date of Birth: 9 June 1879 - Dublin, Ireland
Date of Death: 24 October 1947 - New York City, New York
Mr. Jim's Ratings:
Quality of Picture & Sound: 4 Stars
Performance: 4 Stars
Story & Screenplay: 4 Stars
Overall: 4 Stars [Original Music, Cinematography & Film Editing]
Total Time: 90 min on DVD ~ Warner Bros. Pictures ~ (03/25/2008)
Summary of The Mayor of Hell
Five members of a teen-age gang including leader Jimmy Smith are sent to the State Reformatory presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor arrives complete with hip flask and blonde. Gargan falls for activist nurse Dorothy and inspired by her takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. But Thompson to conceal his years of graft needs a quick way to discredit Gargan.Running Time: 90 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS UPC: 883929002719 Manufacturer No: 1000035745Similar DVD Movies
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