• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Audience Rating: Unrated
• Binding: DVD
• Brand: NEWMAN,PAUL
• EAN: 0024543372264
• Format: Black & White
• Label: 20th Century Fox
• Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
• Number Of Items: 2
• Publisher: 20th Century Fox
• Region Code: 1
• Release Date: 2007-06-12
• Running Time: 135
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• Theatrical Release Date: 1961-09-25

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick
Directed By: Robert Rossen

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 Fats (Gleason, Supporting Actor nominee), who's backed by Bert Gordon (Scott, Supporting Actor nominee), a predatory gambler. Eddie can beat the champ, but virtually defeats himself with his low self-image. The love of a lonely woman (Laurie, Best Actress nominee) could turn Eddie's life around, but he won't rest until he beats Minnesota Fats, no matter what price he must pay. Voted one of the year's ten best by "The New York Times" and "Time," and distinguished by 2 Academy Awards- Cinematography, Art Direction-Set Decoration (B&W), The Hustler is a dazzling cinematic triumph.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great movie!
Comment: When Newman died I decided to buy this movie. It shows him at his prime. The Hustler is a movie about redemption in 1961 America.
The movie's pacing is different from the standard movie. This is a classic. It's fun to revisit the 50's and early 60's to see the time and values put forth by Hollywood. This is a pre-Beatle, pre-boomer movie but one that shaped boomer genaeration. Seldom do we see redeeming movies anymore. It was such an important theme back then. I guess we have forgotten our classic in now fast-paced world of grab the most stuff. This movie is a trip back to a different time. Outstanding cinematography.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Classic Newman!
Comment: I purchased "The Hustler" in tribute to the passing of iconic Paul Newman. The movie represents my favorite Newman performance. The package is wonderful with an extra disc of Extras. A must-have movie for true fans of Paul Newman.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great dissapointment
Comment: 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.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: excellent stuff
Comment: An outstanding piece of American film; commentary useful to some degree altho one of the woman commentators (a daughter of a director or producer) apparently didnt watch the movie very closely, and totally misses the point of the ending when Eddie tells Burt "go ahead and have your boys break my arms..." because otherwise it's as if she never lived."

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Pool would not exist without this film.
Comment: This movie has made Billions of $ Dollars for the pool and billiards industry. There would probably only be pinball, dart boards, and poker machine in bars, if it weren't for "The Hustler" & "The Color of Money". There would be no bar boxes, no pool balls, no Art. Pool is the only thing Artistic that happens in a bar. There is absolutely no reason to walk into a bar, unless you want to drink, lose money or play pool. These are your three options. Pool, by far, is your best choice. Even on a bar box, which is a six foot pool table(they started out being ten feet long and have shrunk since the 1950's), someone who can play with any ability is mesmerizing to watch. Pool is now global. It is played by hundreds of millions of people worldwide, every day. The man who is partly responsible for that has just died, Paul Newman. Fast Eddie lives no more, on earth. He has become one of the pool gods, actually the only real one that exists, and an archetype for pool lovers world wide. Plus this is one of the TOP TEN MOVIES OF ALL TIME, PERIOD. "And man you sure play a great game of pool."

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