The Devil's Party
Cast & Crew
Ray Mccarey
Victor Mclaglen
William Gargan
Paul Kelly
Beatrice Roberts
Frank Jenks
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Synopsis
As the "Death Avenue Cowboys," a gang of poor children in Hell's Kitchen, New York, try to steal from a fruit wagon, Marty Malone, one of the boys, is caught by the police. Although his friends go free because he refuses to name accomplices, Marty is sent to a reformatory. Years later, Marty, now the owner of the Cigarette Club, a cabaret and casino, sends men to strong-arm a customer into paying his gambling debt. The men, Frank Diamond and Sam, kill the customer and try to make his death look as if a neon sign accidentally fell on him on the sidewalk. The police emergency squad, which includes Joe and Mike O'Mara, brothers who graduated from Marty's childhood gang, investigate the crime. Although the police dismiss the death as an accident, Joe is convinced it was murder. At a reunion dinner at Marty's that same evening, the childhood friends, including the O'Mara's, reassemble. Also present are Jerry Donovan, who is now a priest, and Helen McCoy, who has become a performer at the club. Helen, who has refused Marty's many proposals, is in love with Mike, and they dance the evening away. Impatient to solve the crime, Joe leaves the reunion and returns to the scene of the murder, where he himself is murdered by Diamond and Sam after they push him off a roof. Marty arrives and is mortified by the murders perpetrated by his thugs. The homicide bureau dismisses Joe's case as an accident, but Mike is unable to do the same and connects Joe's death with the previous one. After Diamond and Sam rob a jewelry store and set off a bomb next to Marty's club, they 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 however, and confesses his involvement to Jerry, vowing that he never intended any deaths to occur. Diamond and Sam plan a robbery at the Polar Gardens and force Marty to participate, cluing Mike in on the plan. After Jerry again prevents Mike from killing Marty, Marty takes a bullet intended for Mike and dies. His death brings Mike and Helen together, and a playground at Jerry's boys club is built in Marty's name, as he had requested earlier.
Director
Ray Mccarey
Cast
Victor Mclaglen
William Gargan
Paul Kelly
Beatrice Roberts
Frank Jenks
John Gallaudet
Samuel S. Hinds
Joseph Downing
Arthur Hoyt
David Oliver
Charlie Sullivan
Mike Lally
Charles Murphy
Neal Burns
Howard "red" Christie
Allen Fox
Harry "missouri" Royer
Fred Rapport
Marion "bud" Wolfe
Addison Richards
Gordon Elliott
Scotty Beckett
Juanita Quigley
Dickie Jones
Mickey Rentschler
Tommy Bupp
Ralph Sanford
Lee Phelps
Stanley Blystone
George Denormand
Larry Mcgrath
Robert Homans
Norman Willis
William Tannen
Jolane Reynolds
Harvey Karels
Charles Teske
Si Wills
Hugh Huntley
Tiny Sandford
Minerva Urecal
Otto Fries
Charles Sherlock
Jack Kenney
Jack Daley
Drew Demorest
Carl Knowles
Jack Gardner
Oscar G. Hendrian
Art Yeoman
Beryl Wallace
Spec O'donnell
Charles Mcmurphy
Jerry Tucker
Edward Gargan
Dave Sharpe
Jack Roper
Crew
Harold Adamson
Bert Anderson
Tommy Ashton
J. Brooks
Philip Cahn
Charles Carroll
Ed Case
Roy Chanslor
Camille Collins
Ciel Duncan
Maury Gertsman
Edmund Grainger
Charles Grayson
F. Hartman
H. Jensen
Vernon Keays
Joe Kenny
Milton Krasner
Jimmy Mchugh
Arthur Mclaglen
John Mehl
M. F. Murphy
Jack Otterson
A. Dorian Otvos
Charles Previn
Robert Prichard
Adell Pruitt
Carl Scharle
George Schuman
F. Shaw
Joe Smith
N. V. Timchenko
Sheri Traub
E. Walker
Seward Webb
Edwin Wetzel
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Notes
Borden Chase's novel May also be known as Trouble Wagon. This film's pre-release titles were Riot Patrol and Hell's Kitchen.
