The Hustler
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
22 May 1927, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
August 21, 1928 in Borger, Texas, USA
13 November 1928, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
6 June 1926, Portsmouth, Ohio, USA
22 January 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
May 2, 1906 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
February 8, 1908 in Albany, Indiana, USA (some sources say 1907)
June 30, 1904 in Naples, Italy
26 February 1916, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
24 March 1923, Washington, North Carolina, USA
29 April 1927, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
January 13, 2017
Paul Newman is cocky poolroom hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson, a swaggering pool shark punk who works his trade in dingy bars and seedy poolrooms, in Robert Rossen's atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel.
June 20, 2011
So much more than the ups and downs of one pool player--It's shot in a very realistic way and deals with inner conflict and what it means to be a man.
August 03, 2008
Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed, beady-eyed Minnesota Fats, darts among the shabby little pool sharks like an improbably agile and natty whale; and Gambler Scott looks as though he could sell hot-air heat to the devil.
April 11, 2011
A raft of excellent performances buoy a fervent tale of weakness and success.
June 24, 2006
A wonderful hymn to the last true era when men of substance played pool with a vengeance.
January 27, 2016
Rosen, the co-author, has directed with a sure, economical hand. Newman is first-rate.
May 20, 2003
Under Robert Rossen's strong direction, its ruthless and odorous account of one young hustler's eventual emancipation is positive and alive.
March 21, 2007
The Hustler belongs to that school of screen realism that allows impressive performances but defeats the basic goal of pure entertainment.
September 24, 2013
A crackling good morality tale
December 28, 2010
Like a traditional morality play; teens and up.
September 25, 2018
Newman gives a restrained, modulated performance, an unusual one in that character development is sought and achieved with utilization only of voice, gesture, intensity.
May 20, 2011
This is one of Newman's very best films, if not his best, even if it's relentlessly depressing.
