25 facts you might not know about 1961’s “The Hustler” -- Fascinating inside info

I remember reading somewhere that The Hustler was also the first movie in American cinema that used an antihero as the main character.
 
#26: The movie was reportedly filmed in only 6 weeks.

#27: The movie had two alternate names prior to the selection of "The Hustler"...
" Stroke of Luck" ....and ...

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arnaldo, thanks for the read. I knew some of the facts but not most of them. The movie really was one of a kind.
 
J SCHWARZ said:
I remember reading somewhere that The Hustler was also the first movie in American cinema that used an antihero as the main character.
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The 1930's gangster movies as well as the 1940's noir detective films were replete with antiheroes in the lead roles. Many of the Bogart and James Dean films -- all prior to "The Hustler" -- come to mind as well.

Arnaldo
 
arnaldo said:
The 1930's gangster movies as well as the 1940's noir detective films were replete with antiheroes in the lead roles. Many of the Bogart and James Dean films -- all prior to "The Hustler" -- come to mind as well.

Arnaldo
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Isn't there a 30's James Cagney movie, where he (a bad guy)stands at the top of a burning tower, screaming..."I'm the king of the world"??
 
3RAILKICK said:
Isn't there a 30's James Cagney movie, where he (a bad guy)stands at the top of a burning tower, screaming..."I'm the king of the world"??
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Cagney in White Heat yells: "Made it ma, top of the world".....
Echoed in a bad Denzel Washington/John Lithgow movie called Ricochet.
 
#28: since many people still had mono record players, the soundtrack album was released in both a mono version and a stereo version.

# 29: singles from the album were released, with the typical one song per side, but in France a "super single" was released with two songs per side.
 
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