I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Some criminals just shouldn't be let out of prison, and here, it is obvious from the start, that life-long offender Lawrence Tierney is not about to change his ways no matter how many people give him the opportunity to. His mother (Lisa Golm) gives a heart-felt plea to get him out of prison, claiming he's a good boy and if given the chance, can be useful to society. She will learn a bit too late that a mother's love isn't always meant to be apple pie filled sweetness. Lawrence betrays his own brother (the lesser known Edward Tierney) and gets into trouble, unable to remain calm while under pressure working as a gas station attendant. Women aren't safe around the younger brother, either, and he will destroy one of them in the process as well.At just an hour's length, this powerful "B" film noir/crime drama is as exciting as many of the higher budgeted "A" films on the same subject. It is totally without pretense or glamour, and there is absolutely no sympathy for the leading anti-hero. Lawrence Tierney is excellent in this part, seemingly years younger than he really was when he took on this role. Edward Tierney is an interesting contrast and their pairing is a unique teaming in screen history. At first, Golm's mother might seem very stereotypical, almost aggravating, seeming to be exactly like Margaret Wycherly's mom in "White Heat", but her final scene is tragically pained as a lifetime of total disappointment is revealed in just a few minutes. Allene Roberts and Marjorie Riordan make interesting weather-beaten heroines with their characters drawn in over their head and against their will as the women whose lives will be forever shattered because the parole system failed to keep one obvious sociopath behind bars where he belonged forever.

***SPOILERS*** Restored to it's original pristine print in 1999 the film "The Hoodlum" is quickly becoming one of the best film noir movies of the 1940's and 50's with the in and out of the slammer, in real life as well as on the screen, Lawrence Tierney as career criminal Vincent Lubeck a man without a conscience to who he hurts even his own family members in trying to make it big time in his chosen profession. We see at the start of the movie "The Hoodlum" Lubeck being released on bail after serving six years for a stick up robbery of a local candy store. Given a chance to go straight Lubeck instead goes straight to committing crimes that ends up destroying everyone including his long suffering mother, Lisa Golm, who's recommendation and assertion of her son being greatly misunderstood to the state parole board in that he's really a "Good Boy" who fell in with the wrong crowd gave him an early parole.Given a job at his brother Johnny's, played by Tierney's real life kid brother Edward Tierney,gas station as a station attendant Lubeck finds that doing an honest job isn't in his interest. He want's to knock off the Fidelity Savings Bank across the street from the gas station and gets a number of his ex-convict friends to help he do it. In between Lubeck gets involved with Johnny's girlfriend Rosa, Allene Roberts, and after forcing himself on her gets her pregnant with his child. Ashamed in what she did, which in no way was her fault, the guilt ridden Rosa ends up jumping off a roof killing herself as well as her and Lubeck's unborn child.The well planned robbery of the Fidelity Savings Bank goes according to plan even though a number of police and robbers ended up dead wounded and captured. It's at Lubeck & Co. hideout that things really get out of hand when the stolen cash was to be split up by the surviving crooks. That's with the greedy Lubeck wanting a bigger cut of the take and ending up getting none of it in that wild shootout, between the bank robbers, that followed. A wanted man, by both the law and criminal underworld, Lubeck seeks redemption for his very uncivilized life from his dying mom who had since disowned him. As it turned out it was brother Johnny who tracked the low life rat down and in the end put him in his place where he so rightfully belonged: The city garbage dump where he originally came from.Powerful performances by Lawrence Tireney as well as Lisa Golm that really makes the movie click with all those, including myself, watching it. It's by far the scene where Lubeck goes to see his dying mom while the cops are hot on his tail that stick out far and above all the other great scenes in the movie. Knowing that he's got a short time to live, he's in no way going to be taken alive by the police, Lubeck want's his mom's forgiveness for all the terrible things that he did to her as well as everyone else in his rotten life. He, by her dying right in front of him, didn't get it. All he got was what was coming to him and It couldn't have come soon enough.

The title of the picture is short and to the point, the film is appropriately crafted for viewers with a disciplined attention span who just want to get it over with. Lawrence Tierney is all menace here as Vincent Lubeck, freed on parole after a five year stretch against the better judgment of a warden and parole board who've allowed themselves to be influenced by the convincing sob story of a mother who's duty it is to stand up for her son. We'll see how this relationship turns out later, but for now, real life brother Ed Tierney rides to the rescue with a job offer at his filling station with the kind of upward mobility that comes with being located across the street from a bank. I had a sense that pumping gas wasn't Vince's forte when he doused a customer's car with a couple of gallons when he complained about the service. It would have been a worse career move had he been a smoker.Vince does his level best to convince us that he has no redeeming qualities whatsoever by chewing up and spitting out his brother's girlfriend, leading her to suicide following a rape resulting in pregnancy. As an equal opportunity womanizer, he moves in on a bank secretary (Marjorie Riordan) to firm up plans for the big heist. I always get a kick out of these era films where the crime in progress is the subject of newspaper headlines in real time, a feat that took at least another half century to realize with the advent of the internet.You can do better than "The Hoodlum" if masterful crime drama is your thing, but for pure sleaze factor, it doesn't get much better than this. Had the elder Tierney cracked a smile even once I would have been disappointed. This one is pure hard boiled and as gritty as they come, and even though it may not stand up to serious scrutiny, how bad can a film be when it winds up at the city dump.

After five years in the jug, a hard-bitten criminal is reluctantly freed by the skeptical parole board, largely on the pleas of his elderly mother; in no time flat, the hood--now pumping gas at a service station owned by his brother--is plotting the robbery of an armored car along with his cronies. Reunited from the low-budget, critically-acclaimed 1945 gangster film "Dillinger", director Max Nosseck and actor Lawrence Tierney are unable to make lightning strike twice. There are some amusingly rough and tough moments but, curiously, this effort is even more cheaply made than the duo's last (and it only runs an hour!). Opening with a brief flash of the epilogue, the flatfooted narrative then precedes to the jailhouse with some ridiculously melodramatic overacting. Tierney is a solidly unsentimental anti-hero, quick-tempered and rotten to the core, yet he connects with the audience instantly. He might have become a star on the level of Cagney or Bogart had the proper vehicles come his way. This one is just a time-waster, though the logistics of a complicated robbery provide minor interest. ** from ****