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The Hoodlum is a 1951 American film directed by Max Nosseck.
Directed by Max Nosseck
Produced by Maurice Kosloff (producer)
Sam Neuman (associate producer)
Jack Schwarz (producer) executive producer
Nat Tanchuck (associate producer)
Written by Sam Neuman (screenplay and story)
Nat Tanchuck (screenplay and story)
Starring See below
Music by Darrell Calker
Cinematography Clark Ramsey
Editing by Jack Killifer
Release date(s) 5 July 1951
Running time 61 minutes
Country USA
Language English
Cast * Lawrence Tierney * Allene Roberts * Marjorie Riordan * Lisa Golm * Edward Tierney * Stuart Randall * Angela Stevens * John De Simone * Tom Hubbard * Eddie Foster * O.Z. Whitehead * Richard Barron * Rudy Rama
Lawrence Tierney (March 15, 1919 -- February 26, 2002) was an American actor, known for his many screen portrayals of mobsters and hardened criminals, which mirrored his own frequent brushes with the law.
Commenting on the DVD release of a Tierney film in 2005, a New York Times critic observed: "The hulking Tierney was not so much an actor as a frightening force of nature."
Early in his career, he appeared in supporting roles in B movies, including The Ghost Ship (1943), The Falcon Out West (1944), Youth Runs Wild (1944) and Back to Bataan (1945) before starring in the title role in 1945's Dillinger. The role made him a star.
Tierney played the famous 1930s bank robber John Dillinger, in a film that was advertised as a tale "written in bullets, blood and blondes." It was initially banned in Chicago and other cities where Dillinger had operated. Though a low-budget movie, with a budget of just $60,000, it proved popular, with Tierney "memorably menacing" in the title role, in the words of one recent commentator.
RKO assigned him to other tough-guy characters. He played Jesse James in Badman's Territory (1946), a reformed prison inmate in San Quentin (1946), and an ex-marine falsely accused of murder in Step By Step (1946). In 1947 he played the lead role of Sam Wilde in films that have since gained a cult following: the Robert Wise film Born to Kill and The Devil Thumbs a Ride, directed by Felix Feist, in which he played a vicious hitch-hiker.
Writing in The New York Times, film critic Bosley Crowther condemned Born to Kill as "not only morally disgusting but is an offense to a normal intellect." He said that Tierney "as the bold, bad killer whose ambition is to 'fix it so's I can spit in anybody's eye,' is given outrageous license to demonstrate the histrionics of nastiness." More recent critics and scholars have viewed the film as a significant film noir, and as an excellent example of RKO's approach to the genre.
Tierney later said that he did not like playing violent roles:
" I resented those pictures they put me in. I never thought of myself as that kind of guy. I thought of myself as a nice guy who wouldn't do rotten things. I hated that character so much but I had to do it for the picture. "
Tierney had a more sympathetic role as a man wrongly convicted of murder in Richard Fleischer's Bodyguard (1948), but by the 1950s, his well-publicized off-screen brawls began to hurt his career, and his parts grew smaller. He received fourth billing in Joseph Pevney's Shakedown (1950), and had a supporting role playing Jesse James, again, in Best of the Badmen (1951). He played a small role as the villain who caused a train wreck in Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 best-picture Oscar-winner, The Greatest Show on Earth. DeMille asked Paramount Pictures to put Tierney under contract, but the idea was dropped when he was arrested for fighting in a bar.
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Musica ecuatorianaby schmno1119,161,927 views
Larry Tierney was Great!
ZSpartan2013 1 month ago
199436! Mama was helluva Great actress. She really went all in and especially at the parole board.
ZSpartan2013 1 month ago
I read the bios of the 3 young women in this film at the IMDB site. Three amazing women who had their priorities straight.
case2101 3 months ago
HOODLUM.....Mama meant that!!!!
mmalariem1 4 months ago
Heavens to Murgatroid! THANKS a lot for posting all of this noir classic! TCM showed it earlier this week but I wasn't able to watch it or record it. Love the work of the late great Larry Tierney. Not a great actor by any means...but a true force orf nature & charismatic fella. You've MADE my day & my week! CHEERS, mate! :-)
JubalCalif 5 months ago
'He died like the garbage he was.'
shanghaibenny2 9 months ago
no its o.k. just a bit slow. maybe its me.
MsLorenzo2012 9 months ago