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Because what little hoodlum wouldn't want a million and a half bucks-worth of stolen goods in his pocket.
Our hoodlum gang ambushes a German unit and kills/scalps all of them except a sergeant and two other soldiers (no problem so far).
SPOILERS: Three kids who look like they were fired from the cast of THE LITTLE RASCALS get killed by a neighborhood hoodlum who looks like he got fired from the cast of FAME! or as a dancer on DICK CLARK'S AMERICAN BANDSTAND.
John Wayne is U.S. Marshal John Travers, investigating a crooked hoodlum known only as "The Shadow", responsible for stealing cattle, stage holdups and the like, and giving orders from behind the door of a phony wall safe.
Nice supporting performances by Tony Lo Bianco as wormy, sniveling snitch Vito Lucia the Undertaker, Richard Lynch as vicious psychotic hoodlum Moon, Bill Hickman as Moon's equally coldblooded partner Bo, Jerry Leon as funky flatfoot Mingo, and Joe Spinell as a parking garage attendant.
The plot involves Tony the Stephanois, a hoodlum just out of prison, who takes his band of thieves on a $240 million jewel heist.
The movie has some fascinating villains in Paul Lukas (never seen him this detestable) and Guy Kibbee (what a shock to see him act the hoodlum).The direction of Rouben Mamoulian is very inventive,probably the first voice-over to show a persons thoughts appear in this movie.
Is the King really a "good peacenik monarch" trying to wage a "war to end all wars" or is he just a disturbed, blood thirsty hoodlum?
Frankie Darro plays tough kid Jimmy Smith, the leader of a gang of street thugs that is sent to reform school with a few of his hoodlum friends.
ALmost every character in the film is stabbed or gets their head chopped off, but the teacher who called him "white trash" and "hoodlum" (though the character lester is anything but a hoodlum, not even close, i know hoods and am part hood, they don't draw in class, they sit there and throw stuff at the teacher).
Cagney is great as the controlling and abusive hoodlum and paints him with most unflattering strokes, yet generates a bit of sympathy because he is so pathetic as he clings to Day in desperation.
The plot outline would, or certainly should, bore you rigid but here there are no hoodlum clichés, no nightclub clichés and no little big man clichés.
Bridges(like you've never seen him before!)turns in an acting 'tour de force' as the ego-maniac, demented hoodlum that kills without reason.
"Blood and Concrete" is a lame little low budget comedy about a small time hoodlum (Zane) who hooks up with a neurotic babe (Beals) and then learns they have something more in common than mutual admiration...specifically a drug called "Libido".
He had great supporting actors namely: Zero Mostel (Big Babe Lazich) "Fiddler On The Roof"'64; Everett Sloane(Albert Mendoza) "Somebody Up There Likes Me" '56'; Jack Lambert (Tom Zaca) "Riverboat'59" TV Series '59-'61 who played gangster and hoodlum roles in Western's for many years.
Although the acting is undeniably Cagney it still shows a range not possible in his hoodlum roles.
Kudos are also in order for the uniformly fine acting from a first-rate cast: Bettany is genuinely riveting and terrifying as the severely driven and psychotic main character, Thewlis likewise impresses as one smooth operator, McDowell makes the most out of one of his best more recent roles, the ravishing Saffron Burrows exudes pure class as Freddie's brassy singer moll Karen, plus there are nice supporting contributions by Kenneth Cranham as the wise Tommy, Jamie Foreman as hot-headed rival hoodlum Lennie Taylor, Eddie Marsan as sniveling toad Eddie Miller, Andrew Lincoln as vicious hit-man Maxie King, and Doug Allen as the brutish Mad John.
Guilt for what happened to the boy's father keeps him in touch with the hoodlum and attempting to help him.
The first-rate cast of familiar trash flick faces helps matters a whole lot: Ross Hagen as shifty, double-crossing hoodlum Cory Thorton, Brent Huff as the likable, laid-back Tommy Roth, Lois Hamilton as Jim's sweet, concerned wife Sara, Michael Berryman as vicious assassin F.C., Dick Miller as sleazy small-time thief Steve, Laurene Landon as Steve's feisty partner Deborah Silverstein, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as cruel torturer Toshi, Bobbie Bresee as helpful informant Anna, Dawn Wildsmith as a scrappy thug, and Michelle Bauer as a stripper.