The Hoodlum (1919 film)
The Hoodlum is a 1919 silent film comedydrama produced by and starring Mary Pickford and released through First National. The film was directed by Sidney A. Franklin and was based on the novel Burkeses Amy by Julie Matilde Lippman.
Craigen Street turns out to be in one of the slums of lower New York, the subject of her fathers study. At first, Amy is horrified by the squalor. She makes it clear to a couple of friendly young women who want to become acquainted and to Nora Aggie Herring, her fathers cook and servant, that she feels she is far above them. Deeply unhappy, she eventually takes her fathers advice to treat their neighbors as equals. She fits in after several weeks. She makes friends with boy inventor Dish Lowry and young man William Turner Kenneth Harlan, a reclusive neighbor. Amy also ends a yearslong feud between Irishman Pat OShaughnessy Andrew Arbuckle and Jew Abram Isaacs Max Davidson through goodnatured trickery.When a policeman is alerted by a sore loser to her game of craps in the street, she escapes by hiding under the cloak of newcomer Peter Cooper, who takes a room on the floor above the Burkes. Unbeknownst to Amy, the new resident is actually her grandfather in disguise, come to see how she is doing. He is initially disgusted with her behavior, noting on paper that she has become a hoodlum. When Amy takes a sick mother and her children under her wing, she asks Cooper to look after a baby, only to be brusquely rebuffed. Cooper has a change of heart, however, and adopts a whole new, more benevolent attitude, much to Amys delight. He returns to his mansion a changed man taking along Dish Lowry. ........
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