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"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.
47 Cast Members
James Cagney
Richard 'Patsy' Gargan
Madge Evans
Dorothy Griffith
Frankie Darro
James 'Jimmie' Smith
Dudley Digges
Thompson
Arthur Byron
Judge H.J. Gilbert
Allen Jenkins
Mike
Sheila Terry
Blonde with Mike
Robert Barrat
Fred Smith
Allen 'Farina' Hoskins
Joliet "Smoke" Hemingway
Harold Huber
Joe
Dorothy Peterson
Mrs. Smith
G. Pat Collins
Brandon
Edwin Maxwell
Louis Johnson
John Marston
Hopkins
William V. Mong
Mr. Walters
Mickey Bennett
Butch Kilgore
Sidney Miller
Isidore "Izzy" Horowitz
Hobart Cavanaugh
Mr. Gorman
George Humbert
Mr. Carmonotti
Raymond Borzage
Johnny 'Skinny' Stone
