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...picture is much too long (2 hr. 15 min.), but it has strength as well as length. Cameraman Gene Shufton has artfully preserved what Actor Gleason calls "the dirty antiseptic look of poolrooms-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The pool-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...
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