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Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) re-unites with Burt Reynolds for this hard-edged neo-noir. Lieutenant Phil Gaines (Reynolds) is a cynical Los Angeles police detective amorously involved with an icewater-veined Parisian call girl, Nicole Britton (Catherine Deneuve). On the job, he begins to investigate the shady death of a teenage girl that appears to lead straight to Leo Sellers (Eddie Albert), an attorney with a frightening number of connections. The problem is, Nicole herself has a
Dec 25, 1975 Wide
Jun 21, 2005
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Robert Aldrich's Hustle is an honest and profoundly sad movie about how the legal system favors those with money, power and connections over those who don't. One of Burt's best and most underrated films.
Big name stars star in this sleazy romp to L.A.'s strip joints and porno houses...
Thirty years on, however, its integrity and patience look positively masterful.
...plays like nothing more than a vanity project for star Burt Reynolds.
a film that wasted the talent of French star Deneuve, who never pursued a successful career in Hollywood
Burt is credible as the disillusioned cop who feels ashamed that he's pimping for a corrupt system.
Was Bob Aldrich the most misunderstood/under-appreciated filmmaker of his time? Maybe. I was expecting stock-standard 70s cop thriller nonsense from this, and the opening reel led me to think that I was spot on, but no, it turns out it's typically un-typical Aldrich fare. You've got non-committal and detached cops
December 31, 2010
Bleak and Underated film with neo noir feel and great performances from the whole cast. Aldrich is an extremly underated director,who managed to survive the collaspse of the studio system and turn out key genre works in the late 60s and 70s . This is one of his toughest genre films and Reynolds puts in a real grade A
August 4, 2010
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