The Mayor of Hell
1933 · 1h 30m · Crime, Drama · United States of America
Rips the Lid from an Inferno of Human Passions!
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.
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child mistreatmentescape attemptfiregangjudgejuvenile delinquentkids on their ownkindly guardmob justicenursepre-coderacketeerreformatoryreformerreform schoolremaderevoltself governmentsick childsolitary confinementyouth gang
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