- Country: USA
- Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Release: 1952-04-15
- Director: Joseph Kane
- Writers: Bob Considine , Bruce Manning
- Language: English | French | Italian
- Stars: Brian Donlevy , Claire Trevor , Forrest Tucker , Vera Ralston , Luther Adler , John Russell , Gene Lockhart (1891–1957) , Grant Withers , Taylor Holmes , Roy Barcroft
- Runtime: 98 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: L'impero dei gangster (Italy) , Hoodlum Empire (United Kingdom) , El imperio del hampa (Mexico) , Boryoku teikoku (Japan) , Hoodlum Empire (United States of America) , Império dos Malvados (Brazil) , Arhontes tou eglimatos (Greece) , Gangsterland (Sweden) , Hoodlum Empire (Canada) , Dievenwereld (Belgium) , Hoodlum Empire , Violência (Portugal, Portuguese Republic) , 暴力帝国 (Japan) , Mörder Syndikat San Francisco , Gangsternes sidste kup (Denmark) , Au royaume des crapules (Belgium) , Mörder-Syndikat San Francisco , Au royaume des crapules (France, French Republic) , Imperiu de gangsteri (Romania)
- Plot: Bill Stephens heads the US Senate Committee on Organized Crime. In the latest set of hearings, the Committee is focusing on the illegal gambling and graft activities of an organization headed by Nicholas Mancani, who among his upper level associates include Charley Pignatalli and Joe Gray. While they have been able to serve the latter two with subpoenas to appear, Mancani is "conveniently" nowhere to be found with none of his associates claiming to know his whereabouts. Stephens seems most focused on the arm of the organization headed by Gray in Central City, about which they have the most recent information. The complicating factor is a history that exists between Stephens and Gray, they who were in the same battalion fighting in France during WWII, Stephens at the rank of Major and Gray of Captain. Stephens' political aspiration were well known, the men already then calling him "Senator", as were Gray's organized crime connections. After fighting alongside the men in his company and meeting and falling in love with a local, Marte Dufour, who he would marry, Gray vowed that he would go straight, which did not sit well with either Mancani, to who Gray promised not to squeal about any of the organization's activities, or Connie Williams, his moll. While Stephens trusted Gray on the battlefield - Gray's promotions in rank which were deserved - Stephens never could get over Gray's past in their post-war civilian life, unlike the company chaplain, Father Simon Andrews. What is truly happening is that Mancani and Pignatalli have set up Gray, who truly did go straight, to take whatever fall for the organization, they willing to kill anyone who may thwart their plan.
- IMDB:tt0044720
Hoodlum Empire Cast · · · ALL
Joseph Kane
Director
Brian Donlevy
Sen. William J. 'Bill' Stephens
Claire Trevor
Connie Williams
Forrest Tucker
Charles A. 'Charley' Pignatalli
Vera Ralston
Marte 'Marty' Dufour Gray
Luther Adler
Nicholas 'Nick' Mancani
John Russell
Joe Gray
Gene Lockhart
(1891–1957)
Sen. Tower
Grant Withers
Rev. Simon Andrews
Richard Jaeckel
Ted Dawson
Roy Roberts
Police Chief
Whit Bissell
Pickpocket
Don Beddoe
Sen. Blake
Francis Pierlot
Uncle Jean
Taylor Holmes
Benjamin Lawton
Roy Barcroft
Morris Draper
William Murphy
Pete Dailey
Richard Benedict
Silky Tanner
Mikel Conrad
Chunce
Thomas Browne Henry
Commissioner Mermant
Douglas Kennedy
Brinkley
Richard Reeves
Rollins
William Schallert
Inquiry Clerk
Sid Tomack
Meyers
Charles Trowbridge
Commissioner Garrison
Phillip Pine
Louis Barretti