Movie
1975
Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich. It stars Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve, with supporting roles played by Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert and Ernest Borgnine. The film is about a police lieutenant (Reynolds) and his high-priced escort girlfriend (Deneuve) who are drawn into the investigation of a young woman's apparent suicide. The…
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Few things in the history of American cinema provide such a clear representation of the era in which they were made as the crime films of the first half of the 1970s. At least this could be said about films set in big cities, where issues like rampant poverty, drug addiction, racial tensions and an explosion of crime were difficult to ignore. For many producers, such films also provided a cheap excuse to use more li…More
