Hoodlum | |
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Directed by | Bill Duke |
Written by | Chris Brancato |
Produced by | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
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Cinematography | Frank Tidy |
Edited by | Harry Keramidas |
Music by | Elmer Bernstein |
Production companies | United Artists Frank Mancuso Jr. Productions |
Distributed by | MGM Distribution Co. |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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]