The Hustler Comments

  • Monique 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    It's really surprising that a movie in the '60s could get this far. People who are addicted to gambling can never see that others are taking advantage of them by gambling. It's a pity to lose a good...

  • Hosea 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    Favorite black and white film, the lens is beautiful, just right, Paul, Newman. Handsome, dashing, tall and straight, Sarah, charming and lovely. The agent is cold and heartless. The overall plot is...

  • Kayla 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    Not as exciting as expected. I had won from the beginning, and I could delay the overall situation for a while. After meeting the girl, they could have lived a happy life together. But he was bewitched by others. He brought up the pool cue and fought in the rivers and lakes. In fact, he was just making money for others, and in the end, he also risked the girl's life. This is a different American dream movie, which makes people feel a little sad and helpless. The young and vigorous Paul Newman...

  • Maxine 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    Mr. Newman's ball skills are good, praise! Laurie is beautiful, and temperamentally beautiful, and the design of her lame character is fantastic. I think the final fight was a game too, and the bet was that he never set foot in the high-end billiards ring, and Burt didn't really want Eddie's life. Eddie is always a loser. loser in life. Like Burt said, it was...

  • Katheryn 2022-04-23 07:02:04

    I didn't understand, I didn't even understand the word hustler. The nympho is very happy,...

  • Charlie 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    Newman's performance and Rosen's directing are...

  • Ima 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    About life, success or failure, and love. Western-style narrative, psychological warfare, air narrative, a few characters can tell a good story, textbook-level...

  • Osvaldo 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    This one is way too much better than "the color of money". This is a seriously underrated...

  • Dominic 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    The price of growing up is so...

  • Wilfrid 2022-04-22 07:01:26

    I like that girl, I like it very...

Extended Reading

The Hustler quotes

  • [Fast Eddie is bothered because Bert called him a born loser]

    Fast Eddie: Cause, ya see, twice, Sarah... once at Ames with Minnesota Fats and then again at Arthur's, in that cheap, crummy pool room, now why'd I do it, Sarah? Why'd I do it? I coulda beat that guy, coulda beat 'im cold, he never woulda known. But I just hadda show 'im. Just hadda show those creeps and those punks what the game is like when it's great, when it's REALLY great. You know, like anything can be great, anything can be great. I don't care, BRICKLAYING can be great, if a guy knows. If he knows what he's doing and why and if he can make it come off. When I'm goin', I mean, when I'm REALLY goin' I feel like a... like a jockey must feel. He's sittin' on his horse, he's got all that speed and that power underneath him... he's comin' into the stretch, the pressure's on 'im, and he KNOWS... just feels... when to let it go and how much. Cause he's got everything workin' for 'im: timing, touch. It's a great feeling, boy, it's a real great feeling when you're right and you KNOW you're right. It's like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue's part of me. You know, it's uh - pool cue, it's got nerves in it. It's a piece of wood, it's got nerves in it. Feel the roll of those balls, you don't have to look, you just KNOW. You make shots that nobody's ever made before. I can play that game the way... NOBODY'S ever played it before.

    Sarah Packard: You're not a loser, Eddie, you're a winner. Some men never get to feel that way about anything.

  • Fast Eddie: You can't see it, can you, Charlie? I mean, you've never been able to see it. I came after him. And I'm gonna get him. I'm goin' with him all the way. The pool game is not over until Minnesota Fats says it's over. Is it over, Fats?