The Hustler (1961) [NR]

Release Date:
September 25, 1961

Original Title:
The Hustler

Alternate Titles:
Desafio à Corrupção
El audaz
El buscavidas
Haie der Großstadt
Hajen
L'arnaqueur
Lo Spaccone
Robert Rossen's The Hustler
Suurkaupungin hait
Играчът на билярд
بیلیارد باز
허슬러

Genres:
Drama | Romance

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Rossen Films

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: PG  BR: 12  DE: 16  FR: TP  GB: 12  IE: 12  NL: 6  US: NR 

Runtime: 134

They called him Fast Eddie. He was a winner. He was a loser. He was a hustler.

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.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Video

Click each video panel to show or hide.

Although TheMovieDB might provide a key to a YouTube video, there is no guarantee that the video might be present at YouTube.

American Film Institute (AFI)

2008
#6
Top 10: SPORTS
10 Greatest SPORTS Films of All Time

Art Direction:
Albert Brenner

Assistant Camera:
William Cronjager

Assistant Director:
Charles H. Maguire
Don Kranze

Assistant Editor:
Dick Stone

Camera Operator:
Saul Midwall

Costume Design:
Ruth Morley

Director:
Robert Rossen

Director of Photography:
Eugen Schüfftan

Editor:
Dede Allen

Electrician:
David Golden

Grip:
Martin Nallan

Hairstylist:
Donoene McKay

Makeup Artist:
Robert Jiras

Music:
Kenyon Hopkins

Music Editor:
Angelo Ross

Novel:
Walter Tevis

Original Music Composer:
Kenyon Hopkins

Producer:
Robert Rossen

Production Design:
Harry Horner

Production Manager:
John Graham

Screenplay:
Robert Rossen
Sidney Carroll

Script Supervisor:
Marguerite James

Set Decoration:
Gene Callahan

Sound:
Jim Shields
Dick Vorisek

Sound Designer:
Jim Shields
Dick Vorisek

Sound Editor:
Edward Beyer

Still Photographer:
Muky

Stunts:
Herbert Holcombe

Technical Advisor:
Willie Mosconi

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.