Hoodlum
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Hoodlum is a 1997 United Artists 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, and Johnson is not known to have had a hand in the death of Schultz.
[edit] External links
- Hoodlum at the Internet Movie Database
This word also used to describe and outcast, juvenile, deliquent, or little girl from snow hill.
