The Hustler

Year:	1961
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama, Sports
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	8.9 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	13 Have Seen


Director	Robert Rossen
Selected Cast	Paul Newman as Eddie Felson
	Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats
	Piper Laurie as Sarah Packard
	George C. Scott as Bert Gordon
Soundtrack	Kenyon Hopkins

Notes

AKA
L'Arnaqueur

On DVD & Blu-ray World

DVD

The Hustler - 20th Century Fox - USA (2002)

VHS

The Hustler - Key Video - USA (1986)

VHS

The Hustler - Showtime - Finland (1984)

DVD

The Hustler - 20th Century Fox - USA (2015)

DVD

The Hustler - 20th Century Fox - Japan (2007)

DVD

Lo Spaccone - 20th Century Fox - Italy (2002)

DVD

L'Arnaqueur - 20th Century Fox - France (2002)

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Magic Marmalade 8th Feb 2023		Rated 9/10 Nothing may be what it seems. I don't know why this never appears on one of those lists of all time great movies, alongside the likes of Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind etc. As it certainly deserves to be there in my book. One of those that seem to be one kind of movie, about a particular subject, but by the end, has become something else... ..And as this is a pure character study, the reason is that the characters change, or rather, reveal more of what they truly are, and what the real circumstances that compel them to be this way change too. Ostensibly, it's a fairly straightforward story of a cocky, overly-confident young Hustler, on the make, and coming to town to take on the old king of the pool-room hustle, and so take his crown, so to speak, in the er... grass-roots, underworld of small-town pool hall hustlers, but having learned a thing or two in the process, and meeting a lonely woman in a diner, who he strikes up a relationship with, this Maverick drifter with nothing apparently to lose, discovers, all too late, that maybe he, like everyone else in this movie, is only really hustling himself, and the effects, both on him, and those around him, cause him to lose more that he can gain. His tragedy, being that he is so conditioned to hustle, he can't really stop himself even in the face of tragic consequences. It occurs to me that this will have a great deal of relevance to a modern audience, being a great analogy of social media experiences where people are so compelled to present an image of themselves to the outside world, they may lose themselves to this image, and forget who they really are entirely. Which is to say, in repetition: Hustlers only ever really hustle themselves. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 18th Aug 2020



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LouisSidney 5th Jun 2015		Added title screen in proper wide screen ratio.

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