The Hoodlum
About The Hoodlum
A spoiled rich girl loses the life she is used to and has to get by in the slums. Mary Pickford plays her. The story is set in New York and comes from Julie Mathilde Lippmann's novel Burkeses Amy.
Cast & crew
More about The Hoodlum
Sidney A. Franklin directed. Bernard McConville wrote the adaptation. Charles Rosher photographed it. Pickford produced it. First National released it on 31 August 1919, not through United Artists. Kenneth Harlan, Ralph Lewis, Aggie Herring, T. D. Crittenden, and Andrew Arbuckle are billed. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Look
Charles Rosher photographed Pickford after the character is dropped into the New York slums.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Max Davidson and Buddy Messinger are on the cast list.
- The English title on some records is The Hoodlum. The novel is Burkeses Amy.
- First National is the distributor. United Artists is not.
Scenes
- Pickford's character has to live in the alleys after the comfortable house is gone.
Influenced by
- Julie Mathilde Lippmann's Burkeses Amy
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Hoodlum)
