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12 Smooth Facts About ‘The Hustler’ | Mental Floss
It stars Paul Newman as "Fast" Eddie Felson, Piper Laurie as Sarah, George C. Scott as Bert, and Jackie Gleason as Minnesota Fats. 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.
25 Things You Might Not Know About 'The Hustler'
An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie. Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
Description:But while the show often won its time slot and had occasional episodes crack the weekly top 20, the season average was never any higher than 24th place. Fast Eddie Felson is one of them. This new relationship, he writes, is "one of challenge rather than flattery, of doubt rather than certainty. 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.
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