I ran into Paul Newman more than a handful of times and he was ALWAYS gracious, upbeat, and had a few minutes. He was class and cool with a kind and generous heart. His Newman's Own brand and his Hole in the Wall Gang camp for terminally ill children did so much for so many. A very regular guy, an everyman.
I have a buddy who used to cater/chef for a lot of folks in So Cal, and once got to drink beer and talk race cars with Paul Newman, who according to him, was just as you say, friendly, upbeat and down to Earth. He and Gleason did stellar jobs of acting in this film.
@@robertphillips2769.... one quick Paul Newman story. We both resided in Westport, Ct. A small beautiful New England town of about 26,000 on the Long Island Sound approximately 52 miles north of midtown Manhattan (NYC). It was mid afternoon in early March and I was out driving around doing errands on the outskirts of Main Street , the shopping district. And for about a mile of driving on mostly roads with a 30 mph speed limit the car behind me, a silver Toyota Prius, was tailgating me extremely close. I come to a country road intersection with a traffic light which I hoped as I approached it would turn red. Well, it did as luck would have it ! I jerked my SUV into park, hopped out ready to give this tailgater hell and as I got to the hood of the Prius I could see it was Mr. Newman through the windshield. I got to the driver door, his window was down, and said, " hey, Mr. Newman I saw it was you in my rearview mirror and thought I'd say a quick hello". He recognized me and said hello, how's everything, and better hurry up the lights about to change. He was driving his Prius like a racecar. His wife Joanne Woodward still lives in the same house on the outskirts of town they bought around 1960, a cool barn like structure. Paul Newman was "Cool Hand Luke " and even more handsome than magazine photos and cinema could convey. He/they wanted no part of the Hollywood scene.
Today’s movies don’t use double exposure as they used to, and it’s one of the coolest photographic effects to tell the same story from different angles.
@@edthacow What it says on the tin: you expose the same film or photopaper twice. The former is done when actually photographing and the latter during the enlargement phase of the development process. You can use this technique to give the illusion of something or someone being in two places at once (this requires some planning, as the background has to be exactly the same during both exposures and you have to take care not to have the subject overlapping itself,) or to overlay two images with one of them looking somewhat more transparent than the other. Of course, effects like this are done digitally now, so calling it "double exposure" would in most cases just be a figure of speech, like "hanging up" on someone you were talking to on your smart phone.
A moody, poetic masterpiece...Acting, directing, writing and technical aspects were all rock solid right down the line...Probably the finest indoor sport movies ever brought to the screen...Robert Rossen's The Hustler is one picture guaranteed to stay in your mind long after seeing it......
It did such damage to the sport of pool overall tho...now everyone thinks of pool as a thugs game and negative due to this movie and other factors...can u believe video games will be in the Olympics before pool because it brings in more money
Wow. Real actors doing real acting. And it took the academy another 25 years to finally give Newman the award he should deserved for this movie and about half a dozen after it.
Newman wasn't a pool player. Masconi showed him how to play. I played in a pool hall similar to this one. I can easily see that Gleason was good. He had a good bridge and stroke. The average guy probably couldn't see it but paul newman was not comfortable with his bridge or stroke but his acting was impeccable.
I agree completely. As much as I love the Oscars (and I really do love them), I find myself disagreeing with the outcomes about 30-40% of the time, especially in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories.
I'm getting a buzz off of "its me from here on in" right now..."ever feel like you own this table" isn't too far off...damnit!!! AM feeling dialed in right now...where's that garage table with some scotch on the rocks and cold beer...:) (4real used to live in Eureka, CA with a table in the basement and deer running around outside...)
It’s called being in a state of flow. Like everything this feels easy like your doing and not thinking. I really need to watch this movie it looks so good
Great jazzy score by Kenyon Hopkins. This was DOP Eugen Shuftein's final film. He pioneered special-effects use of miniatures, going all the way back to the silent-film, "Metropolis".
Newman, 10 years gone already! Like all great films, The Hustler resonates long in the mind's eye. The script is occassionally poetic. Bert's assessment of "born loser" Eddie. "you learned to feel sorry for your self. Best indoor sport in the world. A sport enjoyed by all"
My dad worked for the real Eddie, as teens growing up in Chicago, him and my aunt both did small odd jobs for him. My family had moved to Chicago from a coal mining town in WV and I think Eddie knew they needed some guidance. My dad ended up in the Marines and did pretty well for himself. I had seen the movie but never knew this until my brother told me years later.
I really enjoyed this film! Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason had brought their A game to this very good story! Newman deserved an Oscar win even back then. Glad to finally see him.get it for the sequel, "The Color of Money," (1986).
There is a sureness and a rhythm among the entire cast in this film -- from the start of the flick to the end -- that says, loud and clear, "This is how it's done." Much like Fast Eddie's and Minnesota Fats' pool skills!
Thank you to the master Willie Mosconi. The greatest pocket billiards player that ever lived. He once drained 526 straight shots in an exhibition and there are many who said in practice he would casually go 8 hrs without missing. There will never be another Mosconi. It's his table, he owned ir..
Was winning tournaments at 8. I have his book "Winning Pocket Billiards." He was a legend. He also famously hated the real Minnesota Fats who used the books notoriety to gain fame even though he wasn't that great a player.
Such a great film 🎥, wonderful actors and actresses 👏, Jackie Gleason was great portraying Minnesota Fats... besides being a great pool player himself.
At this level of play, neither of these guys is likely to damage the table. And even if they did, they bring enough action in that the pool hall will gladly overlook it. (After all, they let Mosconi do it for the movie.)
"Fast Eddie" was shooting the cue ball too hard. Tough to get proper position doing that, especially in Straight Pool. I've been in the APA since '92. Cue Ball control is the key to winning pool games, straight, 8-ball, or 9-ball.That's how I know a player is good. I enjoyed the movie and have watched it several times!!
I played Eddie Parker in the early 80s. He had gone from hustler to traveling trick shot artist. It was sad. Even more sad is that most people do not even know who Eddie Parker was, but they know the name Fast Eddie Felson.
I hear ya.. I knew Eddie.. My brother was the first guy to ever win both the US Open 9-Ball and US Open One pocket titles.. And he got 2nd in the 9-Ball world championships, losing to Varner.. He’s 52, now and it’s a struggle.. No 401K for hustlers..
Its been well documented that the first shot Newman shoots at :26 was an illegal shot. If you slow it down to the slowest speed the balls part ways and the cue stick follows through and hits the ball into the pocket. The cue ball never hit the object ball that goes in, it was the cue stick that knocked the ball in which is illegal. Dont believe me slow it down as slow as you can. Also theres a youtube video on this shot which explains what he did.
"Has that ever happened to you? When all of a sudden you feel like you can't miss?" Well known phenomenon. It's called being "in stroke." Unfortunately, it rarely happens to most of us.
he should have gotten the Oscar for one of these movies. The Hutler, Cat on a hot tin roof, certainly Cool hand Luke. Not for The colour of money...... brrrrrr. That was a consolation prize. And he deserved better then that.
Newman & Redford or Butch and Sundance fans .... there's a fun, neat, 4 Part look at these two together here on UA-cam entitled "Iconoclasts Robert Redford and Paul Newman 1/4 , 2/4 , 3/4 , 4/4 " . Most of it takes place either in Newman's house or at the Westport Country Playhouse, Westport Connecticut. Enjoy !
To me, for some strange reason, Paul Newman always had young looks, and it's hard to believe that he was born as far back as 1925, because his cool, rock and roll kind of personality makes him to be put in a fun 1980's movie about exciting music or athletic sports and still be young at that time, but that was way past his time. I'm sure that because of his cool persona, he probably liked rock and roll and the blues music. I mean that when I say that Paul Newman is a cool actor, because he looks like the kind of guy to have a good time with, with you and him patting each other on the back, and having a good buddy to smile and laugh with. I don't know everything about him, but I'm sure he was a good guy. I probably would've liked to meet Paul Newman as much as I'd want to meet Jack Lemmon.
Omg I never knew that. My father and I loved this movie together. He passed last year and I think he never knew of that cameo. Thx for pointing out. Not sure if that was common knowledge but truly never knew that. 👍
@@mattfitzgerald3354 yeah all the shots you see of Newman, where his face isn’t shown, is Mosconi's. The Fat Man played his own shots. Jackie Gleason was a high level amateur. Sorry about your dad.
It's not a foul, this is straight pool not 8 ball. In 8 ball you are assigned either stripes or solids to whatever ball you pot after the break. If they were playing 8 ball and he was on solids then yes it would be a foul. However in straight pool you can hit any ball you want first, the only thing that matters in order to score a point is that your intended ball goes in the intended pocket, it matters not how it got there.
@@awolf913 it's a clear foul, has nothing to do with 8 ball or straight pool rules. The foul is a double hit with the cue, if u had played/watched more pool, u'd know it urself
@@awolf913yes it's a foul. It's an optical illusion. If you slow it down you will see the cue ball parts the balls out of the way and the cue stick with his follow through actually pushes the object ball into the pocket. There's a youtube video about how they set up the shot and shows how to do this shot. It's definitely illegal
A few errors in the film making here. Such as 0:55 he hits a shot down centre of table but camera zooms in on a ball pocketed in corner close to the rail. Shame they couldn’t be more vigilant with the attention to detail
+Pete Dunham I actually Mean that Mr. Newman is the Second best actor of alltime and De Niro is the best actor ever imo. Chaplin is also the third best actor ever imo!:)
+kingstaff4 That's right, I forgot Mosconi had a cameo in this scene....Isn't he the white haired guy at the center of the screen at 1:46? The famous boxer Jake LaMotta (the subject of 'Raging Bull') also has a cameo in this movie....He's the bartender in the scene where Eddie runs into Sarah at the bar , right after meeting her at the bus station....He has one line in the film, which he keeps repeating every time Eddie orders a drink: "Check"
I came here from the outsiders to see what movie ponyboy saw and I'm gonna do it... i can't help myself to this I'm sorry But When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home.
The most telling part in this scene is when Eddie looks so happy when everyone is applauding. It's so pathetic that he derives his self-worth from the admiration of a handful of poolroom loafers.
It is indeed a lump-in-the-throat moment when you see Fast Eddie soaking up the applause of these bums... hardly the accolades for the lead project scientist in a roomful of colleagues at NASA when a spacecraft is confirmed to be on its way to distant planets... let's put it that way!
Around the Poolrooms of any country you have players at all levels , some who really appreciate the challenge of the game , the competition, the skills involved and action , bets won or lost on a match . We call people who enjoy watching a pool match , " Sweaters ", because when you have a bet down , you perspire over every shot , every game , won or lost. To watch the very best Players in the World perform at their chosen craft , and perform at the highest levels is similar to watching any top athlete perform in any other sport. It is true that unsavory characters hung out at Poolrooms in the past , but today's poolrooms are quite different atmosphere than the past. It's not everyday when you can watch World Class Competition in a One - One match with high stakes involved .
You don't get it..Eddie devoted his life to pool and to mastering the game...this is appreciation from his peers, other pool players...some of them were no doubt very good players themselves and they came from all walks of life, not just 'loafers'....so get a life you judgmental loser
I was supposed to be taking bowering lessons down the street from our house on Saturday morning’s when I was a kid in the 60’s. I’d use the money to play pool instead. The fellow my mom was dating at the time, came in to see how I was doing and caught me playing pool instead of bowling. I had beaten a couple of adults when he came over and place a quarter on the table. When our eyes met, I thought I was going to be in big trouble. Nope. Turns out he knew Fats back then and introduced me to him. Very nice fellow, I must say. Needless to say, I was hooked.
For those who care Newman's 1st shot was a foul: he followed through with his cue hitting the stripe and potting the 2. Its sometimes taught as a trick shot for beginners.
I ran into Paul Newman more than a handful of times and he was ALWAYS gracious, upbeat, and had a few minutes. He was class and cool with a kind and generous heart. His Newman's Own brand and his Hole in the Wall Gang camp for terminally ill children did so much for so many. A very regular guy, an everyman.
You are so lucky........on of the best actors ever....
I have a buddy who used to cater/chef for a lot of folks in So Cal, and once got to drink beer and talk race cars with Paul Newman, who according to him, was just as you say, friendly, upbeat and down to Earth. He and Gleason did stellar jobs of acting in this film.
@@robertphillips2769.... one quick Paul Newman story. We both resided in Westport, Ct. A small beautiful New England town of about 26,000 on the Long Island Sound approximately 52 miles north of midtown Manhattan (NYC). It was mid afternoon in early March and I was out driving around doing errands on the outskirts of Main Street , the shopping district. And for about a mile of driving on mostly roads with a 30 mph speed limit the car behind me, a silver Toyota Prius, was tailgating me extremely close. I come to a country road intersection with a traffic light which I hoped as I approached it would turn red. Well, it did as luck would have it ! I jerked my SUV into park, hopped out ready to give this tailgater hell and as I got to the hood of the Prius I could see it was Mr. Newman through the windshield. I got to the driver door, his window was down, and said, " hey, Mr. Newman I saw it was you in my rearview mirror and thought I'd say a quick hello". He recognized me and said hello, how's everything, and better hurry up the lights about to change. He was driving his Prius like a racecar. His wife Joanne Woodward still lives in the same house on the outskirts of town they bought around 1960, a cool barn like structure. Paul Newman was "Cool Hand Luke " and even more handsome than magazine photos and cinema could convey. He/they wanted no part of the Hollywood scene.
My father was the lighting designer for the launch of Barretstown Camp and always told me how much of a gentleman Paul Newman was during the build up.
My fav actor hands down
Today’s movies don’t use double exposure as they used to, and it’s one of the coolest photographic effects to tell the same story from different angles.
Absolutely! The overlay show "in time" reactions. These days, it's all about the dissolve or fade.
Could you explain double exposure for me?
@@edthacow What it says on the tin: you expose the same film or photopaper twice. The former is done when actually photographing and the latter during the enlargement phase of the development process. You can use this technique to give the illusion of something or someone being in two places at once (this requires some planning, as the background has to be exactly the same during both exposures and you have to take care not to have the subject overlapping itself,) or to overlay two images with one of them looking somewhat more transparent than the other. Of course, effects like this are done digitally now, so calling it "double exposure" would in most cases just be a figure of speech, like "hanging up" on someone you were talking to on your smart phone.
@@edthacowstart the clip at 1:10 .
1:36 Mosconi with the stunt masse shot
1:46 Mosconi front and centre on screen
A moody, poetic masterpiece...Acting, directing, writing and technical aspects were all rock solid right down the line...Probably the finest indoor sport movies ever brought to the screen...Robert Rossen's The Hustler is one picture guaranteed to stay in your mind long after seeing it......
One the great gambling movies of all times besides The Cinnitin Kid played by Steve McOueen
Rocky, Hoosiers, The Harder They Fall?
*One of the finest movies ever brought to screen.
It really does stay with you long after.
It did such damage to the sport of pool overall tho...now everyone thinks of pool as a thugs game and negative due to this movie and other factors...can u believe video games will be in the Olympics before pool because it brings in more money
"Moody....poetic"---SUPERB description--this film is EXACTLY that!! (And a masterpiece!!)
Wow. Real actors doing real acting. And it took the academy another 25 years to finally give Newman the award he should deserved for this movie and about half a dozen after it.
He was hot in the '50s and early '60s (well, especially so) with things like this, the Tennessee Williams pictures, Hud, and plenty others
@Riscoflatz Well, I meant that he had a hot streak, giving great performances in one film after another
@Riscoflatz I meant that he was on a hot streak, great performances in one film after another
one of the best movies i ever watched, everything was superb, Newman, the direction, cinematography a real piece of art.
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Newman is nothing short of amazing in this. Well, everybody is top notch in this classic.
Newman wasn't a pool player. Masconi showed him how to play. I played in a pool hall similar to this one. I can easily see that Gleason was good. He had a good bridge and stroke. The average guy probably couldn't see it but paul newman was not comfortable with his bridge or stroke but his acting was impeccable.
A classic movie. Incredible cast.
This cast killed it. Amazing. I watch it over and over.
Me too, by far the best movie
Def one where if it's on, I can't turn it off movies
One of the top 10 movies ever made in my mind
"You miss?" I love that small statement. Plus I love that the game is so GOOD, the gentlemen applaud. Wow!
Newman should have won four Oscars now for cat on a hot tin roof, the hustler, cool hand luke and the color of Money;)
I agree completely. As much as I love the Oscars (and I really do love them), I find myself disagreeing with the outcomes about 30-40% of the time, especially in the Best Actor and Best Actress categories.
dr strangelove color of $ was quite average. The others u mentioned are exquisite.
dr strangelove yup
I believe that Paul Newman said in an interview that his Oscar win for TCOM was actually a Lifetime Achievement Award...
What a classic The Hustler with Newman and Gleason. Along with The CinnitanKid with McOueen and Edward G two of greatest gambling movies of all times.
I love that line where he says you ever feel like you can't miss
I'm getting a buzz off of "its me from here on in" right now..."ever feel like you own this table" isn't too far off...damnit!!! AM feeling dialed in right now...where's that garage table with some scotch on the rocks and cold beer...:) (4real used to live in Eureka, CA with a table in the basement and deer running around outside...)
It’s called being in a state of flow. Like everything this feels easy like your doing and not thinking. I really need to watch this movie it looks so good
Yeah that's something you say after fouling and playing on.
Paul Newman my favorite actor of all time.
Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Masterpiece
Great jazzy score by Kenyon Hopkins. This was DOP Eugen Shuftein's final film. He pioneered special-effects use of miniatures, going all the way back to the silent-film, "Metropolis".
Newman a great actor. Gleason was awesome too. Newman has academy award written all over this. And Cool hand Luke
And Hud.. He was so good in Hud..
Newman, 10 years gone already! Like all great films, The Hustler resonates long in the mind's eye. The script is occassionally poetic. Bert's assessment of "born loser" Eddie. "you learned to feel sorry for your self. Best indoor sport in the world. A sport enjoyed by all"
My dad worked for the real Eddie, as teens growing up in Chicago, him and my aunt both did small odd jobs for him. My family had moved to Chicago from a coal mining town in WV and I think Eddie knew they needed some guidance. My dad ended up in the Marines and did pretty well for himself. I had seen the movie but never knew this until my brother told me years later.
This movie is a work of art. It's a little TOO good, if you ask me. ;)
I know, right.
This is my father’s favorite movie, and it will always be my favorite also!
I getcha. Almost as bad as when Doyle wrote his book.
Point!
That's the underlying problem
with some of the films
that could have easily been
masterpieces....!
It’s almost as if it’s the progenitor of the 70’s auteur movement?.. It’s that good..
Always liked this excellent film...
I love this freakin' movie
1:46 Willie Mosconi
1:15 Richard Nixon
Somebody up there likes me somebody down here to another Newman classic what a great line
Great movie, I love the scene when he is sparring and dancing , faking punches for his girlfriend who came to watch! Hilarious scene.
He's a man who fell to Earth.
Bravo but The Tevis reference may be wasted on some of these cats.
@@octaviobumble5245 All of Tevis' major characters (Eddie Felson, Beth Harmon, The Man Who Fell to Earth) were alcoholics - like Tevis
@koko40800 yes I'm familiar with Walter tevis and his characters
The camera shots, acting, music. All perfect
1:19 fats had a feeling he was dealing with a different player here , unlike the other players he’s faced and beaten over the years .
Yet at the same time, and just as quickly, he assessed his weaknesses.
My heart hurts watching that! What a film!
I really enjoyed this film! Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason had brought their A game to this very good story! Newman deserved an Oscar win even back then. Glad to finally see him.get it for the sequel, "The Color of Money," (1986).
“This tables mine, man… I own it”
Лучший фильм про бильярд!!!
The jazzy score sure added to it.
"That's what the games all about " too accurate
"I DREAMED ABOUT THIS GAME EVERY NIGHT ON THE ROAD...............YOU KNOW THIS IS MY TABLE MAN,I OWN IT"
This why i miss my mom and dad when they show me this movie when i was young i was. Shock
Newman at the end looks just like Gregg Henry's Val Resnik in Payback.
Gleason was so good in this. As serious as a heart attack.
There is a sureness and a rhythm among the entire cast in this film -- from the start of the flick to the end -- that says, loud and clear, "This is how it's done." Much like Fast Eddie's and Minnesota Fats' pool skills!
one of my all time favorite movies
The cinematography has a flavor not unlike the twilight Zone. Love the Dutch Angle.
Yes! Now that you say it, I can see it clearly. Nice call.
Explain Dutch Angle please.
"Ya know this is my table man, I own it."
Thank you to the master Willie Mosconi. The greatest pocket billiards player that ever lived. He once drained 526 straight shots in an exhibition and there are many who said in practice he would casually go 8 hrs without missing. There will never be another Mosconi. It's his table, he owned ir..
Then the magician from the Philippines came lol
Liam G. Willie was in this clip, did you miss him?
Was winning tournaments at 8. I have his book "Winning Pocket Billiards." He was a legend. He also famously hated the real Minnesota Fats who used the books notoriety to gain fame even though he wasn't that great a player.
Willie was polish and shine, Fats was raw unpolished talent, I don't think Willie cared for that!
Renante Trinidad Willie Mosconi , Willie Hoppe and Raymond Ceulemans were both better players than Efren Reyes.
Please buy the soundtrack to this film, it's fantastic! What a stylish, beautiful film
Gi
My favorite line of all time no doubt
Such a great film 🎥, wonderful actors and actresses 👏, Jackie Gleason was great portraying Minnesota Fats... besides being a great pool player himself.
Ha sign says no masse shots and Newman makes one. Class!
@Jeff Sol This is AMES mister!
At this level of play, neither of these guys is likely to damage the table. And even if they did, they bring enough action in that the pool hall will gladly overlook it. (After all, they let Mosconi do it for the movie.)
This is NYC pool room baby...rules don't apply...why the "No Gambling" and "No Murdering" signs never worked
PN has a pretty decent pool stroke but Jackie's is actually near world class...I would have my money of Jackie in a real game.
"Fast Eddie" was shooting the cue ball too hard. Tough to get proper position doing that, especially in Straight Pool.
I've been in the APA since '92. Cue Ball control is the key to winning pool games, straight, 8-ball, or 9-ball.That's how I know a player is good.
I enjoyed the movie and have watched it several times!!
I played Eddie Parker in the early 80s. He had gone from hustler to traveling trick shot artist. It was sad. Even more sad is that most people do not even know who Eddie Parker was, but they know the name Fast Eddie Felson.
I hear ya.. I knew Eddie.. My brother was the first guy to ever win both the US Open 9-Ball and US Open One pocket titles.. And he got 2nd in the 9-Ball world championships, losing to Varner.. He’s 52, now and it’s a struggle..
No 401K for hustlers..
Its been well documented that the first shot Newman shoots at :26 was an illegal shot. If you slow it down to the slowest speed the balls part ways and the cue stick follows through and hits the ball into the pocket. The cue ball never hit the object ball that goes in, it was the cue stick that knocked the ball in which is illegal. Dont believe me slow it down as slow as you can. Also theres a youtube video on this shot which explains what he did.
0:25 I love playing this shot
There's a time when you can't miss ,a feel.
Yup. With a perfect mixture of youth, amphetamine, a gorgeous woman at your side, and plenty of beer.
Great movie 💪👍🙏!!
I love that first shot he does it was a big risk to take in something like this
Unreal so good
EXCELLENT MOVIE,LAST OR ITS KIND…
"Has that ever happened to you? When all of a sudden you feel like you can't miss?"
Well known phenomenon. It's called being "in stroke."
Unfortunately, it rarely happens to most of us.
Saw this movie, Gleason in control, calm, cool collective, looking at Eddie Felson and thinking in his mind, "he reminds me of me..."
PAUL NEWMAN IS THE BEST MISS HIM ❤
his hair was perfect.
Willie...the greatest pool player anyone ever saw...
I wanna go and watch this right now
I wish I could’ve met Paul Newman. I hate the world with him. 😢
he should have gotten the Oscar for one of these movies. The Hutler, Cat on a hot tin roof, certainly Cool hand Luke. Not for The colour of money...... brrrrrr. That was a consolation prize. And he deserved better then that.
“You sure don’t leave much when you shoot, do ya Fat Man?”
Great line.
There’s something very respectful about how he refers to him as “fat man”
I just watched John Candy playing fats......😂😂😂
You know this is my table man--I own it.
Keep your head down and follow through 🕺🎱🤘
much love, Kimmyssong
Only Newman... Love Newman.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Newman & Redford or Butch and Sundance fans .... there's a fun, neat, 4 Part look at these two together here on UA-cam entitled "Iconoclasts Robert Redford and Paul Newman 1/4 , 2/4 , 3/4 , 4/4 " . Most of it takes place either in Newman's house or at the Westport Country Playhouse, Westport Connecticut. Enjoy !
This is my table I own it 😤
To me, for some strange reason, Paul Newman always had young looks, and it's hard to believe that he was born as far back as 1925, because his cool, rock and roll kind of personality makes him to be put in a fun 1980's movie about exciting music or athletic sports and still be young at that time, but that was way past his time. I'm sure that because of his cool persona, he probably liked rock and roll and the blues music. I mean that when I say that Paul Newman is a cool actor, because he looks like the kind of guy to have a good time with, with you and him patting each other on the back, and having a good buddy to smile and laugh with. I don't know everything about him, but I'm sure he was a good guy. I probably would've liked to meet Paul Newman as much as I'd want to meet Jack Lemmon.
1:46 Willie Mosconi. The greatest pool player that ever lived.
Omg I never knew that. My father and I loved this movie together. He passed last year and I think he never knew of that cameo. Thx for pointing out. Not sure if that was common knowledge but truly never knew that. 👍
@@mattfitzgerald3354 yeah all the shots you see of Newman, where his face isn’t shown, is Mosconi's. The Fat Man played his own shots. Jackie Gleason was a high level amateur.
Sorry about your dad.
I recognize one of the actors was the sergeant in “no time for sergeants” with Andy Griffith.
Gleason was so good in this movie.
"I am shooting fats, when I miss you can shoot"
IF EDDIE DIDN'T GET DRUNK,THE MOVIE WOULD'VE BEEN OVER IN 45 MINUTES...LMAO!
@0:26 totally illegal. Hahahaha!!
It's not a foul, this is straight pool not 8 ball. In 8 ball you are assigned either stripes or solids to whatever ball you pot after the break. If they were playing 8 ball and he was on solids then yes it would be a foul. However in straight pool you can hit any ball you want first, the only thing that matters in order to score a point is that your intended ball goes in the intended pocket, it matters not how it got there.
@@awolf913 it's a clear foul, has nothing to do with 8 ball or straight pool rules. The foul is a double hit with the cue, if u had played/watched more pool, u'd know it urself
@@awolf913yes it's a foul. It's an optical illusion. If you slow it down you will see the cue ball parts the balls out of the way and the cue stick with his follow through actually pushes the object ball into the pocket. There's a youtube video about how they set up the shot and shows how to do this shot. It's definitely illegal
you know where its going
giddy up
Read Bar Stools & Bus Stops. A throwback novel written by a throwback guy who loves Paul Newman.
Great 🍿 movie a classic, I thought willie was the tin man from the wizard of Oz not Willie Mosconi.
Charlie is never convinced and always cautious - age as opposed to Eddie's unbridled confidence.
This is my table…!
I OWN IT…!
Haven't seen the movie yet, but I can definitely recommend the book by Walter Tevis.
You must watch this movie it’s amazing!
I read the book after seeing the film...imo this is one of the few cases where the film is better than the book
A few errors in the film making here. Such as 0:55 he hits a shot down centre of table but camera zooms in on a ball pocketed in corner close to the rail. Shame they couldn’t be more vigilant with the attention to detail
Mr. Newman the best actor of all time since de niro
+Pete Dunham I actually Mean that Mr. Newman is the Second best actor of alltime and De Niro is the best actor ever imo. Chaplin is also the third best actor ever imo!:)
+dr strangelove oh my god you son of bitch
I'd say Day-Lewis is better than DeNiro personally. More versatile. Agree on Newman though
De Niro is Day-Lewis' personal hero, so what does that tell you.
Besides, De Niro's prime work is known for his versatility.
How do we know De Niro isn't actually Day Lewis......
Is that Richard Nixon @ 1:16? LOL
Young Pauly Newman got way too comfortable way too early.
The greatest pool player ever in this scene...Willie Mosconi.
+Steve Kloepping thats not mosconi . Minisota Fats
+hendrik campioni Mosconi was a technical advisor for the film and did many of the trick shots...Including the masse shot at 1:35
+koko40800 sign on the wall said no masse. lol. Favorite movie of all time.
+hendrik campioni Mosconi is in this scene. He's one of the people watching.
+kingstaff4 That's right, I forgot Mosconi had a cameo in this scene....Isn't he the white haired guy at the center of the screen at 1:46?
The famous boxer Jake LaMotta (the subject of 'Raging Bull') also has a cameo in this movie....He's the bartender in the scene where Eddie runs into Sarah at the bar , right after meeting her at the bus station....He has one line in the film, which he keeps repeating every time Eddie orders a drink: "Check"
I came here from the outsiders to see what movie ponyboy saw and I'm gonna do it... i can't help myself to this I'm sorry
But
When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home.
How dare you
Stay gold ponyboy.
The most telling part in this scene is when Eddie looks so happy when everyone is applauding. It's so pathetic that he derives his self-worth from the admiration of a handful of poolroom loafers.
It is indeed a lump-in-the-throat moment when you see Fast Eddie soaking up the applause of these bums... hardly the accolades for the lead project scientist in a roomful of colleagues at NASA when a spacecraft is confirmed to be on its way to distant planets... let's put it that way!
Around the Poolrooms of any country you have players at all levels , some who really appreciate the challenge of the game , the competition, the skills involved and action , bets won or lost on a match . We call people who enjoy watching a pool match , " Sweaters ", because when you have a bet down , you perspire over every shot , every game , won or lost. To watch the very best Players in the World perform at their chosen craft , and perform at the highest levels is similar to watching any top athlete perform in any other sport.
It is true that unsavory characters hung out at Poolrooms in the past , but today's poolrooms are quite different atmosphere than the past. It's not everyday when you can watch World Class Competition in a One - One match with high stakes involved .
You don't get it..Eddie devoted his life to pool and to mastering the game...this is appreciation from his peers, other pool players...some of them were no doubt very good players themselves and they came from all walks of life, not just 'loafers'....so get a life you judgmental loser
Looks like a fine film, MC. Will have to see it.
It is. Check out Scorsese's sequel "the color of money" it's pretty fine to
The big difference Jackie could play in real life and Paul couldn't
I was supposed to be taking bowering lessons down the street from our house on Saturday morning’s when I was a kid in the 60’s. I’d use the money to play pool instead. The fellow my mom was dating at the time, came in to see how I was doing and caught me playing pool instead of bowling. I had beaten a couple of adults when he came over and place a quarter on the table. When our eyes met, I thought I was going to be in big trouble. Nope. Turns out he knew Fats back then and introduced me to him. Very nice fellow, I must say. Needless to say, I was hooked.
Fast Eddie..........let's play some pool...
I love playing pool
For those who care Newman's 1st shot was a foul: he followed through with his cue hitting the stripe and potting the 2.
Its sometimes taught as a trick shot for beginners.
‘I OWN IT’…!
This was By Far the best billiard movie ever made. The others were just wanna bees. This is the one he should of received an Oscar for.