The Color of Money
The Hustler isn't what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.
Plot:Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
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Cast & Crew
Paul Newman
Tom Cruise
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Helen Shaver
John Turturro
Bill Cobbs
Robert Agins
Alvin Anastasia
Randall Arney
Elizabeth Bracco
Vito D'Ambrosio
Ron Dean
Lisa Dodson
Donald A. Feeney
Paul Geier
Directing
Martin Scorsese
Editing
Thelma Schoonmaker
Camera
Michael Ballhaus
Sound
Skip Lievsay
Robbie Robertson
Tom Fleischman
Fun Facts of Movie
- Creators of an up-and-coming software company were looking for a name for their revolutionary new video game. They got it from the scene in which Tom Cruise walks into the pool hall and is asked what’s in the case that he’s carrying. His answer: Doom.
- Tom Cruise did his own trick shots for the film, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another. Scorsese said he could have let Cruise learn the shot, but it would have taken two extra days of practice, holding up production and costing thousands of dollars. The shot was instead performed by professional players Andrew Ghiatsidis & Michael Sigel.
- Paul Newman says the best advice director Martin Scorsese gave him, especially in humorous scenes, was: “Try NOT to be funny.”
- When Paul Newman won the Best Actor Oscar for this picture, he and wife Joanne Woodward became the first married couple to win his and hers Oscars since Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Newman’s win also came after he had already received an Honorary Oscar Statuette the previous year. The win was widely considered based on sentimentality and guilt that one of Hollywood’s leading male actors had never won.
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