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Running time134 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$2,125,000Box office$7,600,000The Hustler is a 1961 American directed by from 's, adapted for the screen by Rossen. It tells the story of small-time pool 'Fast Eddie' Felson and his desire to break into the 'major league' of professional hustling and high-stakes wagering by high-rollers that follows it. He throws his raw talent and ambition up against the best player in the country, seeking to best the legendary pool player '.
After initially losing to Fats and getting involved with unscrupulous manager Bert Gordon, Eddie returns to try again, but only after paying a terrible personal price.The film was shot on location in New York City and stars as 'Fast' Eddie Felson; as; as Sarah; and as Bert.The Hustler was a major critical and popular success, gaining a reputation as a modern classic. Its exploration of winning, losing, and character garnered a number of major awards; it is also credited with helping to spark a resurgence in the popularity of pool. Contents.Plot Small-time pool hustler 'Fast Eddie' Felson travels cross-country with his partner Charlie to challenge the legendary player 'Minnesota Fats'. Arriving at Fats' home pool hall, Eddie declares he will win $10,000 that night. Fats arrives and he and Eddie agree to play for $200 a game. After initially falling behind, Eddie surges back to being $1,000 ahead and suggests raising the bet to $1,000 a game; Fats agrees. He sends out a runner, Preacher, to Johnny's Bar, ostensibly for whiskey, but really to get professional gambler Bert Gordon to the hall.
Eddie gets ahead $11,000 and Charlie tries to convince him to quit, but Eddie insists the game will end only when Fats says it is over. Fats agrees to continue after Bert labels Eddie a 'loser.' After 25 hours and an entire bottle of bourbon, Eddie is ahead over $18,000, but loses it all along with all but $200 of his original stake.
At their hotel later, Eddie leaves half of the remaining stake with a sleeping Charlie and leaves.Eddie stashes his belongings at the local bus terminal, where he meets Sarah Packard, an who is supported by her father, attends college part-time, and walks with a limp. He meets her again at a bar. They go back to her place but she refuses to let him in, saying he is 'too hungry'. Eddie moves into a rooming house and starts hustling for small stakes.
He finds Sarah again and this time she takes him in, but with reservations. Charlie finds Eddie at Sarah's and tries to persuade him to go back out on the road. Eddie refuses and Charlie realizes he plans to challenge Fats again. Eddie realizes that Charlie held out his percentage and becomes enraged, believing that with that money he could have rebounded to beat Fats. Eddie dismisses Charlie as a scared old man and tells him to 'go lie down and die' by himself.At Johnny's Bar, Eddie joins a poker game where Bert is playing, and loses $20. Afterward, Bert tells Eddie that he has talent as a pool player but no character.
He figures that Eddie will need at least $3,000 to challenge Fats again. Bert calls him a 'born loser' but nevertheless offers to stake him in return for 75% of his winnings; Eddie refuses.Eddie humiliates a local pool, exposing himself as a hustler, and the other players punish him by breaking his thumbs.
As he heals, Sarah cares for him and tells him she loves him, but he cannot say the words in return. When Eddie is ready to play, he agrees to Bert's terms, deciding that a '25% slice of something big is better than a 100% slice of nothing'.Bert, Eddie, and Sarah travel to the, where Bert arranges a match for Eddie against a wealthy local socialite named Findley. The game turns out to be, not pool.
When Eddie loses badly, Bert refuses to keep staking him. Sarah pleads with Eddie to leave with her, saying that the world he is living in and its inhabitants are 'perverted, twisted, and crippled'; he refuses. Seeing Eddie's anger, Bert agrees to let the match continue at $1,000 a game. Eddie comes back to win $12,000. He collects his $3,000 share and decides to walk back to the hotel.
Bert arrives first and after an awkward exchange, kisses the unamused Sarah; but the scene implies she sleeps with him. Afterwards, she scrawls 'PERVERTED', 'TWISTED', and 'CRIPPLED' in lipstick on the bathroom mirror. Eddie arrives back at the hotel to learn that she has killed herself.Eddie returns to challenge Fats again, putting up his entire $3,000 stake on a single game. He wins game after game, beating Fats so badly that Fats is forced to quit. Bert demands a share of Eddie's winnings and threatens that Eddie will be injured unless he pays.
But Eddie says that if he is not killed he will kill Bert when he recovers; invoking the memory of Sarah, he shames Bert into giving up his claim. Instead, Bert orders Eddie never to walk into a big-time pool hall again. Eddie and Fats compliment each other as players, and Eddie walks out.Cast. as Eddie Felson. as. as Sarah Packard.
as Bert Gordon. as Charlie.
as Findley. as Big John. as Preacher.
Clifford Pellow as Turk. as bartender. Gordon B.
Clarke as cashier. Alexander Rose as scorekeeper.
Carolyn Coates as waitress. Carl York Young as hustler. as bartender. Gloria Curtis as girl with fur coat., Donald Crabtree, Brendan Fay as poolroom hoodsCast notes. Pool champion has a as Willie, who holds the for Eddie and Fats's games. Mosconi's hands also appear in many of the closeup shots.Production The Tevis novel had been several times, including by, but attempts to adapt it for the screen were unsuccessful.
Director Rossen's daughter Carol Rossen speculates that previous adaptations focused too much on the pool aspects of the story and not enough on the human interaction. Rossen, who had hustled pool himself as a youth and who had made an abortive attempt to write a pool-themed play called Corner Pocket, optioned the book and teamed with Sidney Carroll to produce the script.According to 's agent, Martin Baum, Paul Newman's agent turned down the part of Fast Eddie. Newman was originally unavailable to play Fast Eddie regardless, being committed to star opposite in the film. Rossen offered Darin the part after seeing him on. When Taylor was forced to drop out of Seesaw because of shooting overruns on, Newman was freed up to take the role, which he accepted after reading just half of the script. No one associated with the production officially notified Darin or his representatives that he had been replaced; they found out from a member of the public at a charity horse race.Rossen filmed The Hustler over six weeks, entirely in New York City.
Much of the action was filmed at two now-defunct pool halls, McGirr's and Ames Billiard Academy. Other shooting locations included a townhouse on East 82nd Street, which served as the Louisville home of Murray Hamilton's character Findley, and the Manhattan bus terminal. The film crew built a dining area that was so realistic that confused passengers sat there and waited to place their orders. Served as technical advisor on the film and shot a number of the in place of the actors. All of Gleason's shots were his own; they were filmed in wide-angle to emphasize having the actor and the shot in the same frames. Rossen, in pursuit of the style he termed 'neo-neo-realistic', hired actual street thugs, enrolled them in the and used them as extras.
Scenes that were included in the shooting script but did not make it into the final film include a scene at Ames pool hall establishing that Eddie is on his way to town (originally slated to be the first scene of the film) and a longer scene of Preacher talking to Bert at Johnny's Bar which establishes Preacher is a.Early shooting put more focus on the pool playing, but during filming Rossen made the decision to place more emphasis on the love story between Newman and Laurie's characters. Despite the change in emphasis, Rossen still used the various pool games to show the strengthening of Eddie's character and the evolution of his relationship to Bert and Sarah, through the positioning of the characters in the frame. For example, when Eddie is playing Findley, Eddie is positioned below Bert in a but above Findley while still below Bert in a three shot. When Sarah enters the room, she is below Eddie in two shot while in a three shot Eddie is still below Bert. When Eddie is kneeling over Sarah's body, Bert again appears above him but Eddie attacks Bert, ending up on top of him.
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Eddie finally appears above Bert in two shot when Eddie returns to beat Fats. Themes The Hustler is fundamentally a story of what it means to be a human being, couched within the context of winning and losing. Describing the film, Robert Rossen said: 'My protagonist, Fast Eddie, wants to become a great pool player, but the film is really about the obstacles he encounters in attempting to fulfill himself as a human being.
He attains self-awareness only after a terrible personal tragedy which he has caused — and then he wins his pool game.' Roger Ebert concurs with this assessment, citing The Hustler as 'one of the few American movies in which the hero wins by surrendering, by accepting reality instead of his dreams.' The film was also somewhat autobiographical for Rossen, relating to his dealings with the. A screenwriter during the 1930s and '40s, he had been involved with the Communist Party in the 1930s and refused to name names at his first HUAC appearance. Ultimately he changed his mind and identified friends and colleagues as party members. Similarly, Felson sells his soul and betrays the one person who really knows and loves him in a Faustian pact to gain character.Film and theatre historian has identified The Hustler as one of a handful of films from the early 1960s that re-defined the relationship of films to their audiences. This new relationship, he writes, is 'one of challenge rather than flattery, of doubt rather than certainty.'
No film of the 1950s, Mordden asserts, 'took such a brutal, clear look at the ego-affirmation of the one-on-one contest, at the inhumanity of the winner or the castrated vulnerability of the loser.' Although some have suggested the resemblance of this film to classic, Mordden rejects the comparison based on Rossen's ultra-realistic style, also noting that the film lacks noir's 'Treacherous Woman or its relish in discovering crime among the bourgeoisie, hungry bank clerks and lusty wives.' Mordden does note that while Fast Eddie 'has a slight fifties ring', the character 'makes a decisive break with the extraordinarily feeling tough guys of the ' era. but he does end up seeking out his emotions' and telling Bert that he is a loser because he's dead inside. Reception The Hustler had its world premiere in Washington, D.C. On September 25, 1961. Prior to the premiere, hosted a midnight screening of the film for the casts of the season's shows, which generated a great deal of positive.
Initially reluctant to publicize the film, 20th Century Fox responded by stepping up its promotional activities.On review aggregator, the film has an approval rating of 98%, based on 43 reviews, and an of 8.7/10. The website's critical consensus reads, 'Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason give iconic performances in this dark, morally complex tale of redemption.' The film was well received by critics, although with the occasional reservation.
Praised the performances of the entire main cast but felt that the 'sordid aspects' of the story prevented the film from achieving the 'goal of being pure entertainment.' Variety also felt the film was far too long., writing for, concurred in part with this assessment. Kauffmann strongly praised the principal cast, calling Newman 'first-rate' and writing that Scott's was 'his most credible performance to date.' Laurie, he writes, gives her part 'movingly anguished touches' (although he also mildly criticizes her for over-reliance on ). While he found that the script 'strains hard to give an air of menace and criminality to the pool hall' and also declares it 'full of pseudo-meaning', Kauffmann lauds Rossen's 'sure, economical' direction, especially in regard to Gleason who, he says, does not so much act as 'pose for a number of pictures which are well arranged by Rossen. It is the best use of a manikin by a director since photographed as Big Daddy.' , despite finding that the film 'strays a bit' and that the romance between Newman and Laurie's characters 'seems a mite far-fetched', nonetheless found that The Hustler 'speaks powerfully in a universal language that spellbinds and reveals bitter truths.'
Awards and Nominations The Hustler received nine nominations. The film won two, for ( and ) and. The film was also nominated for and Newman was nominated for. Gleason and Scott were both nominated for; Scott refused the nomination. Laurie was nominated for. Rossen received nominations for and, with Carroll, for.Newman was nominated for a for. Gleason and Scott were each nominated for and Scott was also nominated as.
At the 1962 Awards, The Hustler tied with the film for Best Film from Any Source. Newman won for Best Foreign Actor and Piper Laurie was nominated for Best Foreign Actress. Gleason was honored as Best Supporting Actor by the and the film was named among the Board's ten best films of 1961. Rossen was named Best Director by the and Rossen and Carroll shared the for Best Written Drama.
Lists. Nominated. Nominated.:. Bert Gordon - Nominated Villain.:. 'Eddie, you're a born loser.' - Nominated. Nominated.
#6 Sports FilmLegacy In the decades since its release, The Hustler has cemented its reputation as a classic., echoing earlier praise for the performances, direction, and cinematography and adding laurels for editor, cites the film as 'one of those films where scenes have such psychic weight that they grow in our memories.' He further cites Fast Eddie Felson as one of 'only a handful of movie characters so real that the audience refers to them as touchstones.' Calls the film a 'dark stunner' offering 'a grim world whose only bright spot is the top of the pool table, yet with characters who maintain a shabby nobility and grace.' The four leads are again lavishly praised for their performances and the film is summed up as 'not to be missed.'
Paul Newman reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson in the 1986 film, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. A number of observers and critics have suggested that this Oscar was in belated recognition for his performance in The Hustler. In 1997, the selected The Hustler for preservation in the United States as 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.' The preserved The Hustler in 2003. Carroll and Rossen's screenplay was selected by the in 2006 as the 96th best motion picture screenplay of all time. In June 2008, AFI released its 'Ten top Ten'—the best ten films in ten 'classic' American film genres—after polling over 1,500 people from the creative community.
The Hustler was acknowledged as the sixth best film in the sports genre.The Hustler is credited with sparking a resurgence in the popularity of pool in the United States, which had been on the decline for decades. The film also brought recognition to, who, despite having won multiple world championships, was virtually unknown to the general public. Perhaps the greatest beneficiary of the film's popularity was a real-life pool hustler named.
Mosconi claimed in an interview at the time of the film's release that the character of Minnesota Fats was based on Wanderone, who at the time was known as 'New York Fatty'. Wanderone immediately adopted the Minnesota Fats nickname and parlayed his association with the film into book and television deals and other ventures. Author denied for the rest of his life that Wanderone had played any role in the creation of the character. Other players would claim, with greater or lesser degrees of credibility, to have served as models for Fast Eddie, including, Ed Taylor, and Eddie Pelkey. See also.
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The synopsis below may give away important plot points.Synopsis. The film starts in a bar where a guy named Jeremy (Timothy Simons) is waiting for his date, a model-like blonde woman. Instead, he is met by con artist Penny Rust (Rebel Wilson). She pretends that the girl in the picture that Jeremy was waiting for is her sister who was too shy to meet him because she is ashamed of her small breasts, so Penny almost tricks Jeremy into giving her money for her 'sister's' boob job. However, another guy that Penny swindled finds her in the bar with the cops, and she runs out of there, managing to hide among trash bags since her dress looks like one.
Somewhere in France, a Danish man named Mathias (Casper Christensen) spots an American woman, Josephine Chesterfield (Anne Hathaway), sitting alone at a bar. He approaches her and hears her story about winning a lot of chips at the casino. Mathias offers to sell Josephine his mother's valuable bracelet, only for an Interpol officer, Brigitte Desjardins (Ingrid Oliver), to come by and say that Josephine is an international criminal and that she stole the chips from an old man. In reality, Brigitte and the old man, Albert (Nicholas Woodeson), are in cahoots with Josephine, who is really an English woman posing as a dim-witted American to try and con other men.
She manages to swipe Mathias's bracelet and swap it with a fake. Josephine boards a train heading toward the French Riviera, where she spots Penny conning another guy by pretending that she is trying to come up with ransom money for her kidnapped sister. Josephine is impressed by how Penny makes the man buy her a bunch of food. The two then meet in another train car where Penny explains to Josephine that she exploits men who think women are too vulnerable or incapable of caring for themselves.
Penny also mentions that she is traveling to the town of Beaumont-sur-Mer to con rich men, but since Josephine lives there and doesn't want competition, she tricks Penny into heading toward Port-au-Prince. After arriving in Beaumont-sur-Mer, Josephine sees that Penny made it there by tricking a guy named Gregor (John Hales).
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Josephine has Brigitte arrest Penny by having Gregor identify her while she uses his money to get some kind of water jet pack. While in prison, Josephine goes to Penny's cell and makes her think that Gregor is a member of the Russian mafia and that she will be killed on the outside. She forces Penny to fly back home, but on the plane, Penny is called to the bathroom to meet with Mathias, who tells her that Josephine is also a con artist and that she fooled her as well. Before Penny decides to fly back to meet Josephine, she and Mathias have sex in the bathroom. Penny makes it back to Josephine's home and requests that she teach her to be as good of a con artist as she is. Josephine agrees and shows Penny some of her tricks for fooling men, as well as other random tasks for self-defense.
They start with a few practice targets, starting with a Southern tycoon named Howard Bacon (Dean Norris). Josephine gets him to propose marriage to her, on the condition that he meet her 'sister'. She then introduces Howard to Penny, who is made up to look like a repulsive hag. Howard leaves in disgust and leaves Josephine with the engagement ring. Later on, Josephine pays Brigitte and Albert their share, but not Penny. Dismayed, Penny leaves Josephine, while also suspecting her of being a notorious con artist named Medusa. Josephine attempts to con an old man, only for Penny to come in and ruin everything.
The two then make a bet to see who will con a rich man first. They spot their mark, a young app creator named Thomas Westerburg (Alex Sharp), who is seemingly clumsy and gullible enough to fool.
Josephine tries to catch Thomas at a table in the casino, but Penny comes in pretending to be blind and ends up getting Thomas's attention. The two sit together at another table where Penny tries to convince Thomas to cough up money for an operation for her eyes. Josephine sees that Penny is using her tricks, so she tries to use some of Penny's.
Thomas appears to be a nice guy toward Penny, and he tells her how he wants to make improvements to his app in a way that his bosses may not approve of. He then goes to the bar to find a doctor that Penny made up, and Josephine assumes the role of said doctor so that he can try and get money out of him. He brings her back to the room to 'meet' Penny, who is displeased to see her opponent there. Josephine puts her through some 'tests' for her made-up condition, which is mostly meant to torture Penny. The ladies later end up at a nightclub with Thomas.
Penny convinces a trio of women that she is blind and that Thomas is her ex who is now with her best friend, Josephine. Penny gets Thomas alone and finds out that Thomas doesn't own his company as she believed and that he is practically broke, but he would apparently be willing to pay the rest of his money for Penny's operation. Penny becomes endeared to Thomas and starts to fall for him, which also makes her feel guilty about conning him. Josephine finds Penny in her room, and Penny admits her feelings about Thomas to Josephine. Now that things have gotten personal, Josephine decides to make their bet interesting by seeing which one of them will win Thomas over first. Josephine leaves and also brings the three women from before to handle Penny for lying to them. She then goes to Thomas's room to try and seduce him, but he insists on keeping things professional for Penny's sake.
However, before Josephine leaves, Thomas decides to turn the lights off. In the morning, Penny has to rip her hand off the wall since it was super-glued there.
She runs to Thomas's room just before he leaves, and he tells her that she is the one good thing that happened to him there. As he leaves, she tries to stop him but slips and falls.
Thomas goes to help her and sees that she is moving her eyes and is not blind, believing this to be the result of good medical treatment. The two then go to Thomas's private jet to say farewell.
After it takes off, Josephine goes running after him yelling for the plane to stop. She explains to Penny that after the lights went out, Thomas showed her a PowerPoint presentation on his new app and then asked her to shower before taking her to bed, and then when she got out, all of her clothes and items were gone. Penny tells her that she gave Thomas back $500,000 that Josephine allegedly stole from him, only for Josephine to say that she gave him that much money to invest in his app, which means that Thomas ended up conning both women. He sends them a message revealing that he was Medusa. Sometime later, Penny is back near Josephine's home where she gives Penny some money for her hard work.
They are then met by Thomas, who is giving a tour to a group of people. He approaches the ladies and says that he has made $6 million so far that year from his new app and he thanks them for it, before adding that the three of them would make a great team.
Although they are annoyed, they agree to it, and Penny kisses Thomas. It is now Christmastime. A guy named Todd (Rob Delaney) has been conned by the women, who hide under a Christmas tree because their dresses match the decorations. They meet with Thomas and sail off on a motorboat.