This macho/action yarn with Burt Reynolds as Phil Gaines , as he's the center of the story as a wry police lieutenant , helped by his colleague Sgt. Louis Belgrave (Paul Winfield) . At the instigation of a unsettling father (Ben Johnson), our peculiar Los Angeles cop Gaines investigates the suspicious circumstances of a woman's apparent suicide . Then , the dead girl's daddy launches his own investigation . Little by little Phil is finding out clues , but things go wrong . She's the call girl . He's the cop. They both take their jobs seriously. She's the call girl. If the body's hot...call her. He's the cop. If the body's cold...call him.
¨Hustle¨ reteams filmmaker Robert Aldrich and actor Burt Reynolds after their box-office big hit with ¨The Longest Yard¨. Interesting and provoking script , but with several foul-moothed lines and disagreeable events . Burt Reynolds delivers a nice acting in his usual style as a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach . While the always cold Catherine Deneuve is fine as a hooker who has a troubled relationship with Reynolds . Both of whom play outlandish roles who dream of escaping from their gritty life but never make it . Decent character interpretations provide the real show from Eddie Albert , Ernest Borgnine , Jack Carter , Catherine Bach and Eileen Brennan, all of them help very much , elevating the spectacle , but it is Oscar winner Ben Johnson as a grieving dad who steals the spectacle. At the foot of the support cast , a young Robert Englund , after Freddy Krueger in the Elm Street movies , here doing one of his earlier appearances as a hold-up young man .
Filmmaker Robert Aldrich gives a tense and brilliant direction in this modern Film-Noir , though slow-moving and downbeat , at times . As Aldrich never misses a chance to emphasise the sordid , depressing scenes and the unnecessary . Aldrich began writing and directing for TV series in the early 1950s , and directed his first feature in 1953 (Big Leaguer ,1953). Soon thereafter he established his own production company and produced most of his own films , collaborating in the writing of many of them . Directed in a considerable plethora of genres but almost all of his films contained a subversive undertone . He was an expert on warlike genre (Dirty Dozen , The Angry Hills , Attack , Ten seconds to hell) and Western (The Frisko kid , Ulzana's raid, Apache , Veracruz , The last sunset) . Hustle(1975) rating : 6/10 , it's a must see in its genre.
¨Hustle¨ reteams filmmaker Robert Aldrich and actor Burt Reynolds after their box-office big hit with ¨The Longest Yard¨. Interesting and provoking script , but with several foul-moothed lines and disagreeable events . Burt Reynolds delivers a nice acting in his usual style as a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach . While the always cold Catherine Deneuve is fine as a hooker who has a troubled relationship with Reynolds . Both of whom play outlandish roles who dream of escaping from their gritty life but never make it . Decent character interpretations provide the real show from Eddie Albert , Ernest Borgnine , Jack Carter , Catherine Bach and Eileen Brennan, all of them help very much , elevating the spectacle , but it is Oscar winner Ben Johnson as a grieving dad who steals the spectacle. At the foot of the support cast , a young Robert Englund , after Freddy Krueger in the Elm Street movies , here doing one of his earlier appearances as a hold-up young man .
Filmmaker Robert Aldrich gives a tense and brilliant direction in this modern Film-Noir , though slow-moving and downbeat , at times . As Aldrich never misses a chance to emphasise the sordid , depressing scenes and the unnecessary . Aldrich began writing and directing for TV series in the early 1950s , and directed his first feature in 1953 (Big Leaguer ,1953). Soon thereafter he established his own production company and produced most of his own films , collaborating in the writing of many of them . Directed in a considerable plethora of genres but almost all of his films contained a subversive undertone . He was an expert on warlike genre (Dirty Dozen , The Angry Hills , Attack , Ten seconds to hell) and Western (The Frisko kid , Ulzana's raid, Apache , Veracruz , The last sunset) . Hustle(1975) rating : 6/10 , it's a must see in its genre.