The Devil's Party
The Devil's Party is a 1938 American crime film directed by Ray McCarey based on the Borden Chase novel Hell's Kitchen Has a Pantry.
Plot
Marty Malone is a member of a street gang called the "Death Avenue Cowboys", consisting of poor children in Hell's Kitchen, New York. As the gang try to steal fruit from a fruit warehouse, Marty starts a fire to distract the watchmen, unfortunately it turns into a real blaze and he is caught by the police. Even though the police give him a rough time in questioning, he refuses to say the names of any other gang members, thus saving his friends and accomplices from capture. Marty is sent to a reformatory for delinquents.
More details
| author | Roy Chanslor |
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| director | Ray McCarey |
| editor | Philip Cahn |
| genre | crime drama |
| keywords | arrest boyhood friend boys club break connect death avenue even gambling debt gang member ice skating in hell jewelry store kidnap kill manhattan new york city police department emergency service unit police detective police emergency squad question reformatory skate street gang strike |
| musicBy | Charles Previn |
| producer | Edmund Grainger |
| productionCompany | Universal Pictures |
| publisher | Universal Pictures |