Hustle

1975
R
2h

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

YOUR RATING

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

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At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Robert Englund: The "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise star as "Hold-up Man". This was Englund's third film.

Goofs
Rght after Hollinger punches Gaines in the morgue, there's a red welt near Gaines' left eye. In the next shot, the welt is gone.

Quotes
Lt. Phil Gaines: Don't you know where you live, Marty? Can't you smell the bananas? You know what country you live in? You live in Guatamala with color television.

Connections
Featured in A Little Romance (1979)

Soundtracks
Yesterday when I was Young
(Hier Encore)
Music by Charles Aznavour
French lyrics by Charles Aznavour
English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Sung by Charles Aznavour
Courtesy of Barclay Records

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Good hard-edged cop movie, with a jaundiced view of America

Nope, the movie with that amazing stunt mentioned above is "Stick", not "Hustle". "Hustle" is a nice little film, though - a fairly predictable TV cop movie plot, lifted well above the ordinary by some intelligent well-written dialogue and a nice, world-weary performance by Burt Reynolds (honest!).

Around the same time, the director also made "Ulzana's Raid" and "Twilight's Last Gleaming", both of which are deeply critical of the Establishment. True to form, in "Hustle", Reynolds' cynical detective takes some savage swipes at American society. Best line - "Can't you smell the bananas? We're living in f*cking Guatemala. With colour televisions." (The screenwriter also wrote "Save The Tiger" - with a very similar moral).

Well worth watching on late-night telly - NOT worth watching for Catherine Deneuve, who's remarkably wooden in English.