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Hoodlum 's Dewey (William Atherton) bears little resemblance to the real prosecutor, district attorney, governor, and failed presidential candidate.
Hoodlum , directed by Bill Duke, tells the story of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, a black gangster who did battle with mobster Dutch Schultz in the 1930s.
origin of infra dig, take the cake, blackball, sand hog, Dutch courage, hoodlum(ism), horse latitudes, flotsam, jetsam, apple-pie bed/apple-pie order, jingo
' In the underworld, apparently, it came to be applied, contemptuously, to a whole range of people, mostly young: apprentice hobo, inexpert hoodlum, punk, nance, sneak, informer, and so on.
For starters, Hoodlum elevates Johnson's importance at the expense of Stephanie St. Clair, a k a Madame Queen (Cicely Tyson), an immigrant from Martinique who became a numbers millionaire, and for whom Johnson went to work after his release from jail.