Word: cuestick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUSTLER. Director Robert Rossen, in a formidable, expert and exciting commercial movie, promulgates a slangy, sexy saga of the pool halls, a remodeled myth in which the old king of the cuestick (Jackie Gleason) yields his laurels to the new (Paul Newman), but only after an enormously exciting trial by combat...
...shooting scenes are magnificently staged -the principals were coached by Willie Mosconi, top-ranking pool player in the U.S.-and tellingly edited by Director Robert Rossen (They Came to Cordura). The suspense in the first big game will surely bring sweat to any palm that has ever touched a cuestick. Then, too, Newman is better than usual; Gleason, as the slit-mouthed, beady-eyed Minnesota Fats, darts among the shabby little pool sharks like an improbably agile and natty whale; and Gambler Scott looks as though he could sell hot-air heat to the devil...
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