Week Eighty-Eight
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| "The Devil's Party" 1938 |
MOVIE NAME: THE DEVIL'S PARTY
STUDIO: UNIVERSAL PICTURES
PRODUCER: EDMUND GRAINGER
DIRECTOR: RAY McCAREY
DATE: 1938
TYPE: CRIME,DRAMA
CAST:
VICTOR McLAGLEN as Marty Malone , WILLIAM GARGAN as Mike O'Mara ,PAUL KELLY as Jerry Donovan , BEATRICE ROBERTS as Helen McCoy, FRANK JENKS as Sam , JOHN GALLAUDET as Joe O'Mara , SAMUEL S. HINDS as Justice Harrison, JOSEPH DOWNING as Frank Diamond , ARTHUR HOYT as Webster, TOMMY BUPP, as Jerry as a boy
also Scotty Beckett, Jaunita Quigley, Dickie Jones, and Jerry Tucker as children
SOURCE: A F I, Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940
AKA: Riot Patrol and Hell's Kitchen
SONG: "Things are coming my way,"
STORY: Marty Malone is sent to a reformatory after being caught trying to steal fruit and causing a fire. His gang the "Death Avenue Cowboys," poor children of Hell's Kitchen, New York, go free when Marty refuses to talk. Years later, Marty now the owner of a casino and cabaret, the Cigarette Club, sends men to collect a gambling debt. The men, Frank Diamond and Sam, kill the customer and make it look like an accident. The police emergency squad, which includes Mike and Joe O'Mara, brothers who once were in Marty's gang, investigate the crime. Although the police believe it was an accident, Joe is convinced it was murder. At a reunion, the childhood friends meet at Marty's for dinner. Present are the O'Mara's, Jerry Donovan, now a priest and Helen McCoy, who works at the club as a performer. Helen, who has refused Marty's many proposals, is in love with Mike, and they dance the night away. Joe leaves early to try and solve the crime, where he is murdered by Frank and Sam after they push him off the roof. Marty is mortified by the murder. The police dismiss the case as an accident, but Mike connects the case with the first one. Frank and Sam rob a jewelry store and set off a bomb next to Marty's club, then send notes to Mike incriminating Marty. Mike becomes enraged and tries to kill Marty, but Jerry stops him and Mike is arrested. Marty refuses to press charges and confesses all to Jerry. Frank and Sam plan another robbery and force Marty to participate, cluing Mike in on the plan. After Jerry again stops Mike from killing Marty, Marty takes a bullet intended for Mike and dies. His death brings Mike and Helen together. A playground is built in Marty's name at Jerry's boys club.
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