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.
The Mayor of Hell has generally received positive reviews.
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The Mayor of Hell was released in 1933 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 19 reviews, giving The Mayor of Hell (1933) an average rating of 65%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 80%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 76%.
With a score of 65%, The Mayor of Hell is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1933, which stands at 61%.
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