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Hoodlum Empire

Hoodlum Empire (1952)

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The Kefauver Committee's ongoing investigation of organized crime spawned several "Torn from Today's Headlines!" films in the early 1950s. Republic's Hoodlum Empire concerns the efforts by gangster Joe Gray (John Russell) to get out of the rackets after WW II. Part of Gray's "reclamation" is to testify at a public hearing, prompting a series of flashbacks. Part of the fun is to guess who all the "fictional" criminals are really supposed to be: Luther Adler's character may be called "Nicky

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Bruce Manning, Bob Considine

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The gangster melodramatics are all too familiar.

February 14, 2011 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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