Movie review - "The Hoodlum" (1951) **

 Lawrence Tierney back to being a Bad Apple. His ethnic mother worries about him (the actor plays it as "ethnic type") his brother is a boring you-should-do-the-right-thing type. There's a lot of moralising and not enough action. Tierney steals a girl off his brother and another girl associated with a bank (Tierney played a lot of stud muffins - women were always finding him irresistible). There's some deaths and melodrama (Tierney impregnates his brother's finance who kills herself, the mother dies of a heart attack). The low budget hurts the production value and quality of the support cast. It's cheap and not a lot of fun.