Hoodlum

Hoodlum is a 1997 United Artists blaxploitationfilm that gives an almost entirely 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),

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Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy Garcia).

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After serving time at Sing-Sing prison, black gangster Bumpy Johnson returns to the streets of Harlem to help

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Madame Queen (Cicely Tyson) defend her numbers empire against Dutch Shultz. Lucky Luciano, the crime syndicate boss, sees to it that everything runs "smoothly" amongst crime families to keep prosecutor Thomas Dewey paid off and happy.

1997: 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar....

United Artists: The United Artists Corporation (aka United Artists Associated, United Artists Pictures, and United Artists Films) was formed on February 5, 1919 by five of the leading figures in early Hollywood, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, William S. Hart and D. W. Griffith. They were motiva...

Blaxploitation: Blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation." It is a film genre which emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban African American audience. The films featured primarily black actors, and were the first to...

Hoodlum related Images and Photos (experimental)

Mary Pickford: The Hoodlum 1919