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The Hustler is cut down to almost nothing by tons of pompous elegance (Paul Newman and male associates), and then intermittently saved by Miss Laurie's grace on top of inferiority, slackness and a willed driving towards self-destruction.

'..The Hustler is a sordid, beautiful, wordy, visually austere experience that views all human life with compassion and derision in equal measure...'

Making one of his rare appearances on the full-size screen, TV funnyman Jackie Gleason is superbly suited to his role as a pool-table heavyweight champion...

Newman gives a restrained, modulated performance, an unusual one in that character development is sought and achieved with utilization only of voice, gesture, intensity.

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.