The Devil’s Party

(1938)

66 minutes.

Mystery / Suspense

Directed by Ray McCarey

Cast: Victor McLaglen, William Gargan and Paul Kelly

Four boys growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen vow to meet once a year to renew their friendship.  A short time later, one of the boys accidentally sets fire to a building and another of the boys is convicted of the crime and sent to reform school.  Years later, the four boys are now grown and meet up again with the boy from the reform school now a gambler and nightclub owner, two of the boys are now policemen and the final boy has become a priest.  When a murder investigation leads the two cops to their friend’s nightclub, it spells danger for all involved.