PLEASE NOTE: there is a major difference between the scale with which modern movies are being judged and the "classics scale" with which the...well...good ones are being judged.

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the hustler (rossen, 1961)

a fantastically crafted sports-movie-meets-character-piece, with some of the best acting and directing i've seen in american non-experimentals of that era. some found it slow and long, but i found it to be the perfect hustle in itself.

classics scale: 8/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054997/

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