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The Hoodlum (1951)

Director(s) Max Nosseck
Producer(s)

No producer listed for this movie
Top Genres Crime, Drama, Film Noir
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The Hoodlum (1951) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Max Nosseck .

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The Hoodlum Saint

By Cameron on Mar 12, 2018 From The Blonde At The Film

via: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038615/  Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. The Hoodlum Saint (1946) is about as far from Esther Williams‘ usual movies as you can get. It’s a costume drama set in the 1920s, not a contemporary musical comedy, and it was filmed in black and whi... Read full article

Film Noir Review : The Hoodlum (1951)

By Danilo Castro on May 31, 2017 From Classic Movie Hub Blog

“You cheap hood. Always looking for a fall guy and never realizing you’re it.” Decency, while more prominent in genres like westerns or comedies, is inherent to film noir. In fact, it is an integral part of the noir structure, as characters are constantly being faced with its exist... Read full article

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

on Feb 24, 2016 From Journeys in Classic Film

Known for his ability to corral big casts and create low-budget films efficiently, director Norman Taurog’s brand of can-do sentimentality saw him create enduring works like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Presenting Lily Mars (1943), and The Canterville Ghost (1944). He was also one of t... Read full article

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

on Feb 24, 2016 From Journeys in Classic Film

Known for his ability to corral big casts and create low-budget films efficiently, director Norman Taurog’s brand of can-do sentimentality saw him create enduring works like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938), Presenting Lily Mars (1943), and The Canterville Ghost (1944). He was also one of t... Read full article

Warner Archive: William Powell and a Land-Bound Esther Williams in The Hoodlum Saint (1946)

By KC on Oct 9, 2015 From Classic Movies

William Powell, Esther Williams and Angela Lansbury in a love triangle. Who thought up that one? I love all three of them, but I'd never put them together. It was this curious casting that led me to The Hoodlum Saint, now on DVD from Warner Archive. Set in the years after World War I, Powell is Ter... Read full article

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The Hoodlum Quotes:

Eileen: You handle the truth carelessly, don't you, Vincent?
Vincent Lubeck: That's what I like about you - class! Never come out and call a man a liar.
Mrs. Lubeck: Take a breath, Vincent. Go ahead. Smell! You can smell fresh air here. Not like where we used to live by the city dump. Every time the wind changed... my!... the smell! And Papa running around all day yelling, 'Keep the windows closed! Keep the windows... '
Vincent Lubeck: Stop it, Ma! Keep the windows closed? What was the use? The stink came through them anyhow into all the corners of your lungs... your skin! Even if you took a bath every day, the stink would still stink! Our playground, where we picked up a few pieces of junk to get spending money. A rotten stink! Even now we're not too far away from it! But you wait! I've got ideas. I'll get plenty of money! Yeah, dough! That's the only thing that'll ever cover up the stink of the city dump!
Vincent Lubeck: Ma, the Bible gives you 70 years to live. The insurance companies tell you it's 65. The big companies tell you that after 40 years you can't make a buck. Well, I haven't got far to go. When you die, you're a long time dead.
Mrs. Lubeck: And when you are in jail, are you alive?
Prison Warden Stevens: The only extenuating circumstance is that Vincent Lubeck hasn't committed murder... yet!
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The Hoodlum Facts
A new print has been made of this film which received its premiere at the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences on 21 May 1999.
Restored from the original camera negatives at UCLA Film & Television Archive in 2008 and premiered at the 2009 UCLA Festival of Film Preservation.
Brothers Vincent and Johnny Lubeck were played by actual brothers Lawrence Tierney and Edward Tierney (actor Scott Brady is also one of the Tierney brothers).
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