Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoseph Kane
Screenplay byBruce Manning
Bob Considine
Story byBob Considine
Produced byHerbert J. Yates
StarringBrian Donlevy
Claire Trevor
Forrest Tucker
Vera Ralston
Luther Adler
John Russell
CinematographyReggie Lanning
Edited byRichard L. Van Enger
Music byNathan Scott
Production
company
Republic Pictures
Distributed byRepublic Pictures
Release date
  • March 5, 1952 (1952-03-05) (New York)[1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Hoodlum Empire is a 1952 American crime film noir directed by Joseph Kane starring Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston, Luther Adler and John Russell.[2] It was inspired by the Kefauver Committee hearings dealing with organized crime.[3]

Plot

Former gangster Joe Gray, a World War II hero, now leads a respectable life. When he is summoned to appear before a grand jury to testify against organized-crime activities, his former mobster colleagues try to stop him.

Cast

Reception

In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic A. H. Weiler wrote: "[I]t is a familiar format Bob Considine and Bruce Manning have used to fashion a workmanlike, sometimes brisk but hardly inspired script. ... Their efforts to prove that crime should not pay are worth while. But 'Hoodlum Empire'—even up to its climax, when justice triumphs with a bang—is still play acting, which is not nearly as effective as the facts that obviously inspired it."[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Weiler, A. H. (March 6, 1952). "The Screen in Review: Operation of a Crime Syndicate". The New York Times. p. 25.
  2. ↑ Hoodlum Empire at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  3. ↑ Dickos, Andrew (2002). Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir. The University Press of Kentucky. p. 204. ISBN 978-0813122434.
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