The Mayor of Hell (1933)

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A political appointee with a checkered past tries to institute constructive changes as the deputy commissioner at a cruel reform school but gets pushback from a sadistic warden and a suspicious judge who doesn't trust his motives.  Director: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz  Writer: Edward Chodorov, Islin Auster  Stars: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Byron

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00:00.

00:13Warner Brothers who startled the world with a picture,

00:16I am a fugitive from a chain gang,

00:19now reveal the drama that goes on

00:21behind the barbed wire walls of a reform school.

00:24Fearless in its presentation,

00:27and in its picturization of actual conditions,

00:30this picture brings to light with brutal realism,

00:33facts that have been kept hidden for years,

00:36product of the tenements, the streets, the alleys,

00:39and backyards of the nation.

00:41What happens to these boys under the strong armed methods

00:44of the reform schools?

00:46That's the story, fearlessly, powerfully,

00:49dramatically told in this sensational picture.

00:52They... they sent my first boy there.

00:56He came out of murder.

00:59Well, you take this boy now.

01:01He comes up here a product of the worst environment in the world,

01:05the city slums.

01:07That's where I come from.

01:09There's nothing matter with me, is there?

01:11Oh, well, of course, I...

01:13Ah, nuts.

01:14I ain't gonna let you throw yourself in the pen

01:16for a lot of crummy kids.

01:17Mind your own business.

01:18Nothing at all.

01:19You ain't going up to that joint

01:20where they can put the finger on you.

01:21Hey, wait in there, will you?

01:22All you gotta do is keep in touch with me.

01:23Let me know what the doctor says.

01:24Get our own doctor on it if you have to.

01:25Yeah, come on.

01:26Wait a minute, wait a minute, Patsy.

01:27Come on.

01:28Listen, Patsy.

01:29I'm asking you.

01:30Don't go up there, will you?

01:32Don't shoot her back.

01:34I got a better way of getting...

01:35Okay, Jimmy.

01:36Come on, let's go to the bar.

01:38Let's go!

01:39Go!

01:40Come on!

01:41today, we've got a better way of getting...

01:46You try to catch up with you, we'll find him quickly.

01:50Don't eat them!

01:51Come on, let's go!

01:52Come on!

01:53Come on!

01:55We'll go!

01:58The End

02:28The End

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