The hustler
Sidney Carroll (Screenwriter), Robert Rossen (Screenwriter, Director, Producer), Paul Newman (Actor), Piper Laurie (Actor), George C. Scott (Actor), Jackie Gleason (Actor), Myron McCormick (Actor), Murray Hamilton (Actor), Michael Constantine (Actor), Stefan Gierasch (Actor), Clifford A. Pellow (Actor), Jake LaMotta (Actor), Vincent Gardenia (Actor), Walter S. Tevis, Rossen Films, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten because he doesn't know how to control his impulses. He finds comfort with down-and-out Sarah, a lonely part-time student with a drinking problem, and plans a comeback. Eddie makes a deal with Bert Gordon, a big-time gambler, to act as his manager and stake horse. Under Gordon's tutelage, Eddie learns hard lessons fast. In his rematch with Fats, Eddie wins a bittersweet victory, but can he regain his self-respect?
DVD Video, English, 2007
Collector's edition
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Beverly Hills, CA, 2007