The Mayor of Hell
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.
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"The great James Cagney, top-billed in big letters, doesn't show up till the movie's second third, and probably has less screen time than Dudley Digges, who plays the eee-vill reform-school potentate. But when Jimmy arrives, as a deputy commissioner of something-or-other out to reform reform schools, he slashes the air with his hands and jumps on the balls of his feet and spits out punchy Warners-First National dialogue with all the customary, and expected, panache. The psychology in this crisp antique, one of Warners' many efforts to assert its place as the "socially consci..."
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Jimmy and his gang go into a tobacco shop, and he orders some "Navy Twist" for his "old man." Also known as Navy tobacco, Navy cut, and Navy flake, the tobacco is twisted into a roll. For smoking, a slice (called a "twist" or "curly") is cut off and used in a pipe or sometimes to make a cigarette. Eventually, all twisted or pressed tobacco was called "Navy."
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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.