Hoodlum (1997)
Rating: 6.4/10
Duration: 130 min
Director(s): Bill Duke,
Description:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Cast
- Chi McBride as Illinois Gordon
- Laurence Fishburne as Bumpy Johnson
- Queen Latifah as Sulie
- Loretta Devine as Pigfoot Mary
- Vanessa Williams as Francine Hughes
- William Atherton as Thomas E. Dewey
- Clarence Williams III as Bub Hewlett
- Tim Roth as Dutch Schultz
- Cicely Tyson as Stephanie St. Clair
- Andy García as Lucky Luciano
- Mike Starr as Albert Salke
- Beau Starr as Jules Salke
- Richard Bradford as Captain Foley
- Paul Benjamin as Whispers
- Joe Guzaldo as Bo Weinberg