The Hustler -- opening scene bank shot

[Bob Jewett]

Edit: see the better clip below.

Here is the opening shot from The Hustler. I've seen this cut out of the movie when shown on TV, presumably to make it shorter. This YouTube channel has other short clips

 

[straightline]

That's one I can do lol. I guess it comes under fouette ish. Is it legal?

 

[pt109]

When I was a kid in Detroit, Paul Bruesloff showed me it was a foul shot. He cleaned the cue ball then breathed on it heavily, then made the shot…..showed me about seven chalk marks on whitey.

 

[Bob Jewett]

When I was a kid in Detroit, Paul Bruesloff showed me it was a foul shot. He cleaned the cue ball then breathed on it heavily, then made the shot…..showed me about seven chalk marks on whitey.

That also happens frequently when you're jacked up over a ball and can only hit the top of the cue ball. Nobody calls the foul, though. The table forces the cue ball to go back into the tip.

 

[cjr3559]

This clip shows the shot. Best quality I could find on YT.

 

[trob]

Here is the opening shot from The Hustler. I've seen this cut out of the movie when shown on TV, presumably to make it shorter. This YouTube channel has other short clips

They seriously cut that out! That’s a great scene that sets the tone for the entire movie. That’s terrible to cut that

 

[iusedtoberich]

Wow, can't believe anyone would cut that sequence out! It sets up the whole movie!

 

[iusedtoberich]

I never noticed until now when Eddie shot it the second time, the OB jumped the table. It looks like it climbed the money and jumped the rail. Then Eddie turns around and bends down to pick it up. That gives him the perfect opportunity to look at the crowd laughing at him. Do you guys think that was scripted? Or it just happened and he went with it and they kept the camera's rolling?

 

[Chopdoc]

I remember it well. I don't remember it being cut out.

Fun.

 

[iusedtoberich]

BTW for any The Hustler fans, check out the movie Hud. Its good!

 

[nataddrho]

Or any Paul Newman movie. Cool Hand Luke, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy… all good.

 

[gregcantrall]

Cool Hand Luke,

"I can eat 50 eggs!"
Oh and don't forget Absence of Malice.

 

[gregcantrall]

Butch Cassidy

"YOU CAN'T SWIM???, Hell the fall will probably kill you anyway."

 

[Bob Jewett]

I remember it well. I don't remember it being cut out.

Yeah, I've seen it both ways. I remember the movie starting out on one broadcast where they go up to Ames looking for Fats, and I thought, "What? That's no good."

 

[GoldCrown]

Here's the unedited Trailer...

 

[Run Of One]

They seriously cut that out! That’s a great scene that sets the tone for the entire movie. That’s terrible to cut that

The may have cut it because Eddie says he's "loaded up on hemp"

 

[Icon of Sin]

That also happens frequently when you're jacked up over a ball and can only hit the top of the cue ball. Nobody calls the foul, though. The table forces the cue ball to go back into the tip.

Similar with those ultra close jump shots where players are practically cueing straight down on the cue ball... cueball goes airborn and then goes forward off the shaft of the cue.

 

[mikemosconi]

IMO - a truly great opening scene choice to set the stage for this great movie- go forward to the great western The Magnificent Seven - where there were several opening scenes, that also set the stage for a great movie, esp. James Coburn as the knife throwing cowboy.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Here's the unedited Trailer...

John Candy was funny.

 

[GoldCrown]

John Candy was funny.

Always is. Our man Del Griffin