Table from "The Hustler"

Pizza Bob

Pizza Bob

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My "bogus meter" is going off the scale here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75198&item=7163779058&rd=1

Claims this table was used in the movie "The Hustler". While there may have been a Medalist model table being produced at the time (movie released in 1961, gotta figure it was shot in 1960), it sure wasn't this one. This table is contemporary with the GCIII's. If he was offered $8K for it, he should have taken it and RUN. JMHO.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
 
Pizza Bob said:
My "bogus meter" is going off the scale here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75198&item=7163779058&rd=1

Claims this table was used in the movie "The Hustler". While there may have been a Medalist model table being produced at the time (movie released in 1961, gotta figure it was shot in 1960), it sure wasn't this one. This table is contemporary with the GCIII's. If he was offered $8K for it, he should have taken it and RUN. JMHO.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
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I'm not an expert on Brunswick but it looks like a Medalist to me with the 1 piece rail for the long rails and the base, but I agree with you if it really was theeeee table used in the movie for the overhead shots, I wouldn't get rid of it, especially for that price. I would want more!!!!!!

NO-SHO
 
I like his precise method of leveling the right side of his table

Pizza Bob said:
My "bogus meter" is going off the scale here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75198&item=7163779058&rd=1

Claims this table was used in the movie "The Hustler". While there may have been a Medalist model table being produced at the time (movie released in 1961, gotta figure it was shot in 1960), it sure wasn't this one. This table is contemporary with the GCIII's. If he was offered $8K for it, he should have taken it and RUN. JMHO.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
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A few years ago someone offered at ebay one of the Murray tables used in the Color of Money. The price was around $10,000. Way overpriced if you ask me.
 
And reading the ebay ad, the owner states that "The Hustler is a Disney movie classic." WHAT!?!?!?
 
kokopuffs said:
A few years ago someone offered at ebay one of the Murray tables used in the Color of Money. The price was around $10,000. Way overpriced if you ask me.
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Agreed - $10K for any Murrey is way overpriced - but at least it was probably the real deal. I have played in a room in Rancho Cucamonga, CA (The Cue & Vue) that has Murrey tables. Several of them have engraved plates on them stating that they were used in COM.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
 
Pizza Bob said:
My "bogus meter" is going off the scale here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=75198&item=7163779058&rd=1

Claims this table was used in the movie "The Hustler". While there may have been a Medalist model table being produced at the time (movie released in 1961, gotta figure it was shot in 1960), it sure wasn't this one. This table is contemporary with the GCIII's. If he was offered $8K for it, he should have taken it and RUN. JMHO.

Adios,

Pizza Bob
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Most of the scenes from The Hustler are shot in Ames Billiards in Times Square, New York City. This was a real poolroom and they used the actual tables there. It wasn't a Hollywood prop. I reviewed a few pictures from Ames and cannot confirm or deny that they had this type of table (though I doubt it). If it were used for the movie, it would have been for one of the shorter poolroom scenes (the stop on the way to the "Sales Convention" or playing 9-ball and getting thumbs broken).

In my opinion, although it would be a rather cool thing to say that a table were used in the production of a movie, keep in mind that if you were to buy ANY used table from a poolroom, you could likely get a story about it. Too bad you weren't around when Amsterdam East closed. I could have pointed out tables that were for sale that were used by Roger Clemens, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte, Jeanette Lee, Johnny Archer, Jerry Orbach, Paul Sorvino, etc., etc.
 
Black-Balled said:
I like the red. Soothing.
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He got the idea from the box art for the DVD release of the Hustler, with that awful (IMHO) colorized photo of Paul Newman. I have no idea why they decided to make the felt red, but then I was just so relieved to find out they had no actually colorized the movie itself.
 
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