The Hoodlum
The Hoodlum is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by Max Nosseck and starring Lawrence Tierney, Allene Roberts, Marjorie Riordan and Lisa Golm.
Plot
Vincent Lubeck (Lawrence Tierney) is an habitual criminal from childhood, who has recently been released from prison on parole. He would not have gotten out had it not been for the pleas of his elderly mother. He gets a job working at his brother Johnny's gas station. He seduces Rosa, his brother's fiancee who hopes to reform him but can't resist his determined advances, which he makes in part to show her it's not so easy to be good in a bad world.
More details
author | Sam Neuman |
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director | Max Nosseck |
editor | Jack Killifer |
genre | crime |
keywords | all-points bulletin armored car arrest autopsy bank job bank robbery beg deathbed domineer drive flash forward gas station how to nothing police detective survive |
musicBy | Darrell Calker |
producer | Maurice Kosloff |
productionCompany | Jack Schwarz Productions |
publisher | Eagle-Lion Films |
theme | film noir heist |