Hustler movie trivia question. Any experts here?

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SouprFive

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I am sure someone can answer these two questions, in the movie The Hustler with Gleason, and Newman.

Went the movie starts Eddie?s partners say they or Eddie Sell _____, and is going to a sales convention for an award. What did Eddy sell in the story?

After Fats wipes Eddie out the first time, Eddie goes looking for a game, and offers to play ?jack up pool? with some people in a bar. What is jack up pool?
 
SouprFive said:
I am sure someone can answer these two questions, in the movie The Hustler with Gleason, and Newman.

Went the movie starts Eddie?s partners say they or Eddie Sell _____, and is going to a sales convention for an award. What did Eddy sell in the story?

After Fats wipes Eddie out the first time, Eddie goes looking for a game, and offers to play ?jack up pool? with some people in a bar. What is jack up pool?
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"Druggist supplies. Buster here is gonna get an award."
 
As everyone slips their DVD of the Hustler in to see what he sold. Johnnyt
 
SouprFive said:
I am sure someone can answer these two questions, in the movie The Hustler with Gleason, and Newman.

Went the movie starts Eddie?s partners say they or Eddie Sell _____, and is going to a sales convention for an award. What did Eddy sell in the story?

After Fats wipes Eddie out the first time, Eddie goes looking for a game, and offers to play ?jack up pool? with some people in a bar. What is jack up pool?
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Jack-up pool is playing with one hand.
 
Cornbread used to offer players my speed to gamble one handed. If that wasn't enough, he'd up the spot to "one-handed, jacked-up". Jacked up would mean he wouldn't rest the cue on the rail for support, but rather spear at the cue ball. Yes, he'd beat your brains in that way too.
 
kvinbrwr said:
Cornbread used to offer players my speed to gamble one handed. If that wasn't enough, he'd up the spot to "one-handed, jacked-up". Jacked up would mean he wouldn't rest the cue on the rail for support, but rather spear at the cue ball. Yes, he'd beat your brains in that way too.
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Get the heck out of here. That's outrageous. I used to play with a guy who has one arm, and shoots pretty well (he's a rock solid APA SL4 and should really be a SL5). He runs into problems when shooting over a ball, or out of a pocket; he has to, as it's said, jack up his cue, and often miscues. Cornbread must have had great skill to be able to shoot well like that.
 
druggert supplies is what it sounds like. Charlie" kids the fastest in the territory" Eddie "yeah fastest and the best, hey gets us another round will ya one for him and one for yourself."
 
Ok I have wondered for years if the license plate on the Caddie (TK-6) had any meaning in the Color of Money?
 
Anyone here under 40 or 50 years old probably never heard the term "Druggist" Remember the good old days with a drug store on every corner? Now it's a drug dealer on every corner!
 
TIMBER1 said:
Ok I have wondered for years if the license plate on the Caddie (TK-6) had any meaning in the Color of Money?
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me too! i always wondered if it was a homage to walter tevis or something.
 
Here is a piece of trivia you can't just look up. What actor besides Paul Newman appeared in both The Hustler and the Color Of Money?
 
macguy said:
Here is a piece of trivia you can't just look up. What actor besides Paul Newman appeared in both The Hustler and the Color Of Money?
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jake lamotta ?
 
Gregg said:
Cornbread must have had great skill to be able to shoot well like that.
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thats an understatment, he could suck his rock jacked up to, i rode in an elevator with him once in 93. He was as tough as nails.
 
Skill???? Cornbread????

Gregg said:
Get the heck out of here. That's outrageous. I used to play with a guy who has one arm, and shoots pretty well (he's a rock solid APA SL4 and should really be a SL5). He runs into problems when shooting over a ball, or out of a pocket; he has to, as it's said, jack up his cue, and often miscues. Cornbread must have had great skill to be able to shoot well like that.
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I know alot of folks got a poor opportunity to judge the skill level of Cornbread Red because they only saw him late in his career when he played in public tourneys, but when he was younger, waiting for ANYONE that had the heart and cash to come into the Capitol Cue Club (a place taken private just to be a support mechanism for Red), very few, if any, in America could play with him, maybe nobody in the world was a better one-pocket player at the time.

I know that in every area of the Country, there are players that everyone in that area says are best in the world, in the Midwest 60s and 70s it was Cornbread. I'm a banger now and was a banger then, but Red played me 9 Ball one handed jacked up and you would be hard pressed to find anyone that would take my side in that action. And that's 9-ball, one pocket he could play that way against real players and send them home broke too.

Cornbread was a meanish bad ass man with more pool skill than any human (except you-know-who) I have seen play since.

Kevin
 
You are...

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Fatboy said:
thats an understatment, he could suck his rock jacked up to,:eek: i rode in an elevator with him once in 93. He was as tough as nails.
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...still talking about POOL here right;) :p

MM
 
macguy said:
Here is a piece of trivia you can't just look up. What actor besides Paul Newman appeared in both The Hustler and the Color Of Money?
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Its not Orivs that swept up at Mcgeers in the Hustler.....

Southpaw
 
Tk-6

TIMBER1 said:
Ok I have wondered for years if the license plate on the Caddie (TK-6) had any meaning in the Color of Money?
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You and everyone, and I've never seen it convincingly answered. Eddie sells liquor that his clients then can peddle as Wild Turkey, he has fake labels. He claims that his car was paid for by liquor, so maybe that caddy is the 6th he has had paid for by (fake) Turkey? That's my guess. I know they feature it enough in the film that it seems like it should mean something (or is it the plate frame that has meaning?).

Kevin
 
It Ain't About The Money, It's About The Action... imo

As previously mentioned, 'jacked up' means shooting one-handed without use of the rail or any type of bridge.

For shots that you can reach, many one-handed players find the balance point of their cue, but some play by holding the cue firmly behind the balance point and slowly lowering the tip down to the cueball and then POW (right in the kisser)...

On hard to reach long shots and shots where the cueball is mostly hidden by another object ball, the shooter will hold his cue in a 'spear type' fashion and jab the cueball into the their object ball.

It's a fun game to watch when played by good players, but a sweators torture to have to watch two lobsters bang the balls around.

Greg Sullivan played me a game of one-pocket for 50 jellybeans with him holding/balancing his cue on one finger and me using two hands. He plays good like that (even though he's letting the cue touch the back edge of his palm on his final shooting stroke)... :) I guess that he thought I couldn't see what he was doing.
Doug
( I won anyway and then bet him double or nothing on a coin flip and lost )
 
Southpaw said:
Its not Orivs that swept up at Mcgeers in the Hustler.....

Southpaw
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Are you certain that is wrong? Because that is what I was referring to. The guy who opens the blinds and Fats says, "Cut out that sunshine".
I heard Bill Cobbs say it in an interview. His first screen credit though is not till 1974 when he was almost 40.

I will have to see if I can find it somewhere because I don't want to say something that could be wrong and I am going by memory.
Even in the COM the script they make a point to let you know Paul Newman knows him from the past.
One thing, he was around 26 when The Hustler was made and certainly recognizable if there are any good shots of him, he has a distinctive look. I don't have the DVD though or I could check.
 
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