The hustler film reviews
The Hustler () - Rotten Tomatoes
23 Jun Bert: You got talent. Eddie: So I got talent? So what beat me? Bert: Character. There are only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones.
Fast Eddie Felson is one of them. The pool shark played by Paul Newman in "The Hustler" () is indelible--given weight.
4 Jun Not a flawless film, but darn close to one, and a movie that should be seen by anyone who loves sports (like me). More. Dan Schultz.
Super Reviewer. ½. A character study of an awesome proportion, it's much more than the theatrical antics of a small time pool hustler. Paul Newman portrays "Fast" Eddie. There are some who wrongfully assume that The Hustler is about pool. It is a natural assumption: much of the action takes place in billiards rooms and pool halls, but this movie is no more about pool than Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull is about boxing.
Lead character Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a pool shark, but.
Hustler, The (United States, 1961)
Description:Eddie Felson, brilliantly played by a young and gorgeous Paul Newman, leans low over a barroom pool table, inspecting the cue ball and another ball pinned together on the side rail less than a foot from the end pockets. Good thing no one told him; stumbling over to the facing side, he lines up and drains the ball. His partner in this con game is a pudgy fellow named Charlie Myron McCormick , who has the perfect look of a man so well-acquainted with losing he can see it coming a mile down the pipe and who lays a bet against his boy repeating the magic shot.
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