Hoodlum (film)

Infobox Film
name = Hoodlum

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caption = Theatrical poster
director = Bill Duke
producer = Frank Mancuso Jr.
writer = Chris Brancato
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starring = Laurence Fishburne
Tim Roth
Andy Garcia
music = Elmer Bernstein
cinematography = Frank Tidy
editing = Harry Keramidas
distributor = MGM
released = August 27, 1997
runtime = 130 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
gross = $23,461,013 (USA)
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amg_id = 1:158646
imdb_id = 0119311

"Hoodlum" is a 1997 crime film that gives a partially fictional account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The film concentrated on the illegal activities lives of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne),
Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia).

The film is notable in that it casts Johnson as the ring leader in the death of Schultz, influencing Luciano into committing the crime himself. The accepted viewpoint is quite different: Schultz is believed to have been killed by Murder Inc, a group which is only tangentially related to Luciano, due to his threats towards then crusading District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey. Johnson, who freely cooperated with Schultz following his takeover, is not known to have had a hand in his death. While the film also shows Dewey accepting payoffs from the mob, there is no evidence for this, historical or hearsay. "Hoodlum" is followed by Ridley Scott's film "American Gangster", which continues the life story of gangster Bumpy Johnson, mainly focusing on the man who eventually took over his operation, Frank Lucas.

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ee also

* [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hoodlum#Etymology Hoodlum at Wiktionary]

External links

*imdb title|id=0119311|title=Hoodlum
*amg title|id=1:158646|title=Hoodlum