Yapım :1997 Ülke : Amerika Tür : Crime Süre : 130 dakika IMDB Puan : 5.7/10 IMDB ID: tt0119311
A.K.A Gangster : USA), working title () Hoods : USA), working title ()
Oyuncular Laurence Fishburne - Bumpy Johnson Tim Roth - Dutch Schultz Vanessa L. Williams - Francine Hughes Andy Garcia - Lucky Luciano Cicely Tyson - Stephanie St. Clair Chi McBride - Illinois Gordon Clarence Williams III - Bub Hewlett Richard Bradford - Captain Foley William Atherton - Thomas Dewey Loretta Devine - Pigfoot Mary
Bilgi :The film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie "The Queen" St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise "no violence".Tells the story of how Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson helped Madame Stephanie St. Clair keep Dutch Schultz from taking over her Harlem numbers racket.In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City is a lottery know to the locals as "the numbers". Someday, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
