Mayor of Hell, The torchlighters represented by an ineffective public

represented by an ineffective public defender at trial

wedgie-giving barbarians and lots more

even then they were at a loss until

000 people in the infant nation

and howthey turned salty marshland into a city for the ages

Mayor of Hell, The torchlighters represented by an ineffective publicYou scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Politicos award gangster Patsy Gargan a cushy job as a honcho at a woefully run boys reform school. No experience necessary. No expectations. No problems. But firebrand Patsy (James Cagney) runs up against plenty of problems in this impassioned Depression era mix of social conscience filmmaking and the gangster genre. He sees something in the kids himself. He, too, was raised in the slums. And he decides to