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Mafia History: HOODLUM |
HOODLUM (1997)
Power is measured in enemies.
Movie directed by Bill Duke.
Screenplay by Chris Brancato.
Original Music by Elmer Bernstein.
Non-Original Music by Giacomo Puccini (from "Tosca"), Giuseppe Verdi (from "Macbeth")
The Cast:
Laurence Fishburne as Bumpy Johnson
Tim Roth as Dutch Schultz
Vanessa L. Williams as Francine Hughes
Andy Garcia as Lucky Luciano
Cicely Tyson as Stephanie St. Clair
Chi McBride as Illinois Gordon
Clarence Williams III as Bub Hewlett
Richard Bradford as Captain Foley
William Atherton as Thomas Dewey
Loretta Devine as Pigfoot Mary
Queen Latifah as Sulie
Mike Starr as Albert Salke
Beau Starr as Jules Salke
Paul Benjamin as Whispers
Joe Guzaldo as Bo Weinberg
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Plot Summary:
The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie "The Queen" St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise "no violence".
Summary written by N/A from imdb.com
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associate: one who works with mobsters, but hasn't been asked to take the vow of Omerta; an almost confirmed, or made guy.
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