Director- Robert Rossen
Starring- Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson gets the game of a lifetime when he challenges Minnesota Fats to a game. Unfortunately things don't turn out the way he'd have liked. I read a review from someone else about this movie that related this as a metaphor. Fats was considered the "establishment", and Felson was a rebel trying to buck the establishment. In the end the establishment won out, making for not the happiest of movies, but oh well. Whether or not that relation is true, I can see where the reviewer was coming from. The acting was great, and you've never seen a cooler Jackie Gleason.
Rating: 3.5/5 Bonedaddies.
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