The Hustler
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
10 July 1921, The Bronx, New York, USA
May 2, 1906 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
June 30, 1904 in Naples, Italy
27 August 1929, Sumner, Georgia, USA
5 February 1926, New York City, New York, USA
21 January 1909, New York City, New York, USA
28 August 1930, New York, USA
1 July 1920, New York City, New York, USA
30 August 1923, Corinth, New York, USA
18 October 1927, Wise, Virginia, USA
22 May 1927, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
February 8, 1908 in Albany, Indiana, USA (some sources say 1907)
11 September 1936, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
26 February 1916, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 March 1899, Chicago, Illinois, USA
August 21, 1928 in Borger, Texas, USA
29 April 1927, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
13 November 1928, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
March 9, 1904 in USA
June 27, 1913 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
22 January 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
6 June 1926, Portsmouth, Ohio, USA
24 March 1923, Washington, North Carolina, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
7 January 1920, Naples, Campania, Italy
May 20, 2011
This is one of Newman's very best films, if not his best, even if it's relentlessly depressing.
April 11, 2011
A raft of excellent performances buoy a fervent tale of weakness and success.
December 28, 2010
Like a traditional morality play; teens and up.
September 24, 2013
A crackling good morality tale
March 21, 2007
The Hustler belongs to that school of screen realism that allows impressive performances but defeats the basic goal of pure entertainment.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
