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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9781415711729
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1415711720
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD087854D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Running Time: 119 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1975
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Caught in a web of modern reality is an old-fashioned detective who still sees the difference between right & wrong. By day he investigates a young girls suicide: at night he relaxes with a high priced paris call girl. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 06/21/2005 Starring: Burt Reynolds Ben Johnson Run time: 120 minutes Rating: R Director: Robert Aldrich
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Among the films that made the '70s an "American Renaissance" decade, Hustle merits a place of honor. As vigorous as the groundbreaking work of such Young Turk contemporaries as Scorsese, Spielberg, and Coppola, its distinction lies in being a throwback to the '50s glory days of its director, Robert Aldrich, when he was making corrosive, Establishment-baiting classics like Attack! and Kiss Me Deadly. The same sardonic spirit, bracing socio-political anger, and bold, hard-edged moviemaking inform this look into the soul of Los Angeles by way of a murder investigation that may not, in fact, have a murder at its core.
Steve Shagan wrote the script, and like his 1973 Save the Tiger, this movie's central character is a burnt-out case with a nostalgia for lost values: an LAPD detective (Burt Reynolds) whose spiritual/ethical touchstones are film-noir Bogart and soft-focus French movies of the '60s. He should have a girlfriend played by Catherine Deneuve--and he does, a Deneuve whose first signs of aging on screen are an evocative element of the film. Her character is a high-class courtesan whose clients include a prominent attorney (Eddie Albert); he also appears to have had some connection with a 20-year-old hooker/druggie whose corpse just washed up on a California beach. Throw in Ben Johnson as the dead girl's seething war-veteran dad, Eileen Brennan as his wife, Paul Winfield and Ernest Borgnine as Reynolds's fellow cops, and you've got one potent ensemble. Reynolds isn't equal to the task of selling some of Shagan's most florid rhetoric (probably no actor would be), but he makes an honorable stab at it. And as an urbane power-broker who can contemplate an assassination while finishing his Cobb salad, the late Eddie Albert is chilling, just chilling. --Richard T. Jameson
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Rating:  -
"Hustle" represents perhaps the bleakest Noir of the seventies. The remarkable and talented Robert Aldrich (Kiss me deadly)directed this emblematic film filled of satirical cynicism about the personal life of the main investigator, the dark revelations about an overdoses about the daughter of his colleague as well as the fact a corrupt attorney is involved with nasty influences responsible for bringing his couple to USA.
An emblematic Noir with a shaterring performancve of Ben Johnson. ... Read More
Rating:  -
Would you believe there was time I thought Burt Reynolds was a good actor (Sharkey's Machine)? But even in "Deliverance" I didn't think he was that great. I just keep seeing him as "The Bandit" driving around, making an a** of himself, while being chased by Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason). I also realize how bad an actress Catherine Deneuve was when I watched this flick. Beautiful and gorgeous, but terrible acting.Burt kinda' plays his old Dan August part in this movie. The interaction between Reynolds ... Read More
Rating:  -
HUSTLE is better than some other Burt Reynolds movies, while not as good as others. The film is a very good film, however, a problem arises in that the subject matter is very sleazy, many of the people are sleazy, and in the end the movie suffers from all the sleaze.
I'm a Burt Reynolds fan, always have been, so when I watch one of his movies I am pretty much happy to watch ole Burt do his thing, which is entertain. I've been able to collect some of his DVDs with this one being ... Read More
Rating: -
An L.A. cop and a murder victim's father struggle with their realization that all women are prostitutes in this washed-out DVD of a middling 70s thriller. Burt's amusing flippancy in most scenes undercuts what elsewhere tries to be a morally murky drama, and long romantic scenes dull the thriller pace. The picture's blatant misogyny doesn't help matters.
Most of the scenes are set bound so except for Burt's sweet ride we don't get much period flavor. The whole thing plays like a very foul-mouthed ... Read More
Rating: -
At times it's hard to know quite what to make of Hustle. There's certainly a good film in there, but there's also a bad one as well and Robert Aldrich doesn't make the two into something entirely cohesive. Joseph Biroc's photography is somewhat schizophrenic too. The police station interiors and night shots look great with a classic neo-noir look to them with their deep blacks, but some of the daytime work looks like painfully artificial TV movie stuff. Some of the editing is awkward and some of the writing so ... Read More
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