The hustler

DVD 2015

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 b...

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Billiard players Fiction

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Description:

1 videodisc (135 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
polychrome
digital
optical
surround
Dolby Digital monophonic
wide screen
NTSC
video file
DVD video
region 1

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: PG

Other Title:

Hustler (Motion picture : 1961) [DVD]

Notes:

Number of discs vary
Based on the novel by Walter S. Tevis
Title from container
Director of photography, Eugene Shuftan ; film editor, Dede Allen ; music by Kenyon Hopkins ; production designer, Harry Horner ; technical advisor, Willie Mosconi ; costume designer, Ruth Morley
Paul Newman (Eddie Felson), Piper Laurie (Sarah Packard), George C. Scott (Bert Gordon), Jackie Gleason (Minnesota Fats), Myron McCormick (Charlie Burns), Murray Hamilton (Findley), Michael Constantine (Big John), Stefan Gierasch (Preacher), Cliff Pellow (Turk), Jake LaMotta (Bartender), Gordon B. Clarke (Cashier), Alexander Rose (Score keeper), Carolyn Coates (Waitress), Carl York (Young hustler), Vincent Gardenia (Bartender)
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1961
DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic
For private home use only
Named to the National Film Registry in 1997 by the Library of Congress
Winner, 1962 Academy Award for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White--Harry Horner, Gene Callahan; Best Cinematography, Black-and-White--Eugen Schüfftan; 1962 BAFTA Film Awards for Best Film from any Source; Best Foreign Actor--Paul Newman
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)
Audio track in English, French, with optional subtitles in Spanish, captions in English

Control Number:

3027359

UPC:

024543238980
024543372622
024543499978

Other Authors:

Carroll, Sidney, screenwriter
Constantine, Michael, actor
Gardenia, Vincent, actor
Gierasch, Stefan, 1926-2014, actor
Gleason, Jackie, 1916-1987, actor
Hamilton, Murray, actor
LaMotta, Jake, actor
Laurie, Piper, 1932-2023, actor
McCormick, Myron, actor
Newman, Paul, 1925-2008, actor
Pellow, Clifford A., 1928-2019, actor
Rossen Films, production company
Rossen, Robert, 1908-1966, film director, screenwriter
Scott, George C., 1927-1999, actor
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., film distributor
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, production company
motion picture adaptation of (work): Tevis, Walter S. Hustler

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