Port Townsend Film Festival 2008

Port Townsend Film Festival
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The Hustler
Robert Rossen 1961
Categories: Feature
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"Fast" Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary "Minnesota Fats" to a high-stakes match, but he loses in a heartbreaking marathon. Now broke and without his long-time manager, Felson faces an uphill battle to regain his confidence and his game. It isn't until he hits rock bottom that he agrees to join up with ruthless and cutthroat manager, Bert Gordon. Gordon agrees to take him on the road to learn the ropes. But Felson soon realizes that making it to the top could cost him his soul, and perhaps his girlfriend.

Roger Ebert: “(’The Hustler’) is one of the few American movies in which the hero wins by surrendering, by accepting reality instead of his dreams.”

Awards:
Academy Awards® for best art direction-set decoration, best screenplay; nominations for best picture, best director, best actor, best actress, best supporting actor (Gleason and Scott)
BAFTA for best film, best actor; nomination for best actress

The film will be followed by an interview of Piper Laurie by Robert Osborne, primetime host of Turner Classic Movies.

Print Source: Criterion Pictures
Email: cary@criterionpictures.com
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director
Robert Rossen
writer
Robert Rossen, Sydney Carrol, Walter S. Tevis
 
cinematographer
Eugene Suftan
Cast
Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Jackie Gleason, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick
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