Hoodlum (film)

Hoodlum
Theatrical release poster
Directed byBill Duke
Written byChris Brancato
Produced byFrank Mancuso Jr.
Starring
CinematographyFrank Tidy
Edited byHarry Keramidas
Music byElmer Bernstein
Production
companies
United Artists
Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions
Distributed byMGM Distribution Co.
Release date
  • August 27, 1997 (1997-08-27)
Running time
130 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30 million[1]
Box office$23,461,013 (US)

Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized 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 concentrates on Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), Dutch Schultz (Tim Roth), and Lucky Luciano (Andy García).[2]

  1. ^ "MGM at a prelim". 23 January 1997.
  2. ^ Hoodlum at IMDb