The Hustler
Description
Paul Newman heads a superb cast featuring Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie in the riveting film that received an Academy Award(r) nomination as Best Picture of 1961 and brought all four of its Oscar(r) nomination. Newman (Best Actor nominee) is electrifying as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler who haunts backstreet pool rooms fleecing anyone who’ll pick up a cue. Determined to be acclaimed as the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota F… More >>
March 14th, 2010 at 1:10 am
This film is so old it is in Black and White. Despite being very early in Paul Newman’s career, he is already showing his ability as an actor. I had some trouble fully relating to the era being depicted as it was before my time. Still, the story has a plot and this movie makes a good background for “Color of Money”. It has some other big-name actors in it, like Jackie Gleason, playing Minnesota Fats.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 3:24 am
Boring tale about neurotic phonies in a neurotic phony world.
Waste of acting talents and photography.
The music in the jazz scene is described by the subtitles as “Dixieland jazz”. If that is so, I am King of France.
Rating: 1 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 5:57 am
well this quick ….magically spell myself to make this come out right an well understood …a superiotious afi the past week made mwwe me exited it was spicy an full of flare an well educated with wisdomatic creativetyan showed the higher learning processes of posteritied solutions 333 …ps i never can recall anyomne else saying that surprizingly enough that even if you beet me im still the best …. to me pauls greatest lines he ever said that i remember well ….she was so plain an observant in her role as well from what i canm remember truly agree with the rating afi gave …shdfh …
Rating: 3 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 7:33 am
Are subtitles available? I’ve been waiting a long time for this to come out, but if there are no Spanish subtitles I won’t buy it. I live in Costa Rica, and I hate the look of disappointment when a guest looks through my DVDs and finds one in which they’re strongly interested, only to be told there are no subtitles.
I can understand not dubbing a film – that’s expensive. But how much can it cost to add subtitles? I know it can’t be too much. Considering the quality of some translations one gets the impression that one guy spent the afternoon typing out the Spanish as he watched the movie a couple of times.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 14th, 2010 at 8:21 am
Isn’t this filmed 4:3 aspect ratio? Why buy Blueray? I’ve never heard a good argument for buying pre-sixties films in 4:3 on a 16:9 capable media.
Anybody, Bueller, Bueller?
Rating: 3 / 5