Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.Black gangsters in 1930 Harlem fights Dutch Schultz who is trying to horn in on their numbers racket.
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- 7 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaActor Clarence Williams III who plays the character Bub Hewlett, a rival of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson's, would go on to portray Johnson in the first few scenes of American Gangster (2007) 10 years later.
- GoofsWhile Bumpy and Madame St. Claire are listening to opera on the Victrola, the record playing displays the Okeh label. Okeh Records, founded in 1918 recorded mainly middle-of-the road popular music, standards, light classical and blues, but not opera.
- Quotes
Dutch Schultz: I remember the days when you could get a guy hit for 40 bucks.
Albert Salke: We live in inflationary times
- SoundtracksIt Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)
Written by Duke Ellington and Irving Mills
Performed by Laurnea Wilkerson
Laurnea Wilkerson appears courtesy of Yab Yum Entertainment
Featured review
If you like Ol'G thirties style in color...Hoodlum is it!
Hoodlum.....what can I say, if you had cool Grandparents that grew up in Harlem in the 1930's who liked to party, dress and play numbers then maybe you'd of heard some of the stories about the going ons in Harlem U.S.A. during that period. Numbers were literally the Black mans lottery back then and communication between runner and player no matter how small the amount played was the lug that connected dreams with hope for the little guy; Hoodlum is a story about the preservation of those hopes and dreams by a one Bumpy Johnson. The music, wardrobe and cinematography is superb, I highly recommend this tale of Harlem history.
Macheeste~
Macheeste~
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- Aug 11, 2003
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Box office
- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $23,499,102
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,162,768
- Sep 1, 1997
- Gross worldwide
- $23,499,102
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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