the mayor of hell has the feel of an early dead end kids film and but with a much harder edge and very few light spots and preceding the first appearance of the dead enders by four years. james cagney has a full screen opening credit and even though technically and the amayor of the movie title is actually portrayed by frankie darro and one of several boys sent to reform school during the opening scenes. darro character is jimmy smith and a young tough who befriended by patsy gargan (cagney) and and is elected to the position when gargan takes a chance at humanizing conditions at a state reformatory. warner brothers made a lot of these types of films and attempting to provide a conscience of sorts in an era that only too well knew about the effects of crime and poverty. this movie is quite gritty and with no apologies for ethnic stereotyping and as in the submissive posture of a black father in court or the way a jewish kid gets to run a candy shop in the reform school. the rules at the reformatory are simple enough  work hard and keep your mouth shut while step out of line and you answer personally to warden thompson (dudley digges). cagney role in the story seems somewhat ambiguous and since even though he makes a serious effort to improve conditions inside the reformatory and on the outside he still nominally in control of a criminal racket. the film attempt to juggle this dichotomy falls short in my estimation and the finale attempts to wrap things up in a neat package as gargan awaits the outcome of a near fatal shooting of one of his henchmen. not exactly the kind of role modeling one would look for in a film like this. warner brothers would sanitize some of the elements of this story in a 1938 remake titled crime school and featuring humphrey bogart in the cagney role and and billy halop in the frankie darro part. if youre partial to the dead end kids you will probably like the latter film better and since it also offers familiar faces like leo gorcey and huntz hall and bobby jordan and gabriel dell. however the ending is somewhat muddied in that one too and with bogart warden character involved in a cover up of a prison breakout. both films offer a romantic interest for the lead characters and in mayor and madge evans is a reform minded nurse that falls for cagney character. curiously and a lot of james cagney early films aren not commercially available and so you will have to keep your eyes peeled for a screening on turner classics and or source the film from a private collector. personally and i can not get enough of this kind of stuff and and find intriguing points of interest in the films of all genres from the thirties and forties. 
the mayor of hell has the feel of an early dead end kids film and but with a much harder edge and very few light spots and preceding the first appearance of the dead enders by four years. james cagney has a full screen opening credit and even though technically and the amayor of the movie title is actually portrayed by frankie darro and one of several boys sent to reform school during the opening scenes. darro character is jimmy smith and a young tough who befriended by patsy gargan (cagney) and and is elected to the position when gargan takes a chance at humanizing conditions at a state reformatory. warner brothers made a lot of these types of films and attempting to provide a conscience of sorts in an era that only too well knew about the effects of crime and poverty. this movie is quite gritty and with no apologies for ethnic stereotyping and as in the submissive posture of a black father in court or the way a jewish kid gets to run a candy shop in the reform school. the rules at the reformatory are simple enough  work hard and keep your mouth shut while step out of line and you answer personally to warden thompson (dudley digges). cagney role in the story seems somewhat ambiguous and since even though he makes a serious effort to improve conditions inside the reformatory and on the outside he still nominally in control of a criminal racket. the film attempt to juggle this dichotomy falls short in my estimation and the finale attempts to wrap things up in a neat package as gargan awaits the outcome of a near fatal shooting of one of his henchmen. not exactly the kind of role modeling one would look for in a film like this. warner brothers would sanitize some of the elements of this story in a 1938 remake titled crime school and featuring humphrey bogart in the cagney role and and billy halop in the frankie darro part. if youre partial to the dead end kids you will probably like the latter film better and since it also offers familiar faces like leo gorcey and huntz hall and bobby jordan and gabriel dell. however the ending is somewhat muddied in that one too and with bogart warden character involved in a cover up of a prison breakout. both films offer a romantic interest for the lead characters and in mayor and madge evans is a reform minded nurse that falls for cagney character. curiously and a lot of james cagney early films aren not commercially available and so you will have to keep your eyes peeled for a screening on turner classics and or source the film from a private collector. personally and i can not get enough of this kind of stuff and and find intriguing points of interest in the films of all genres from the thirties and forties. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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