Hustle

Following the box-office success of The Longest Yard (1974), director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds chose a very different path with their next collaboration Hustle, a dark, Los Angeles set, neo-noir. 

Maverick director Robert Aldrich, best known for films like Kiss Me Deadly (1955), Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and The Dirty Dozen (1967) which explored the darker sides of American society and the human psyche, followed the The Longest Yard (1974), with Hustle a dark, Los Angeles set, neo-noir.

Alongside Burt Reynolds, Aldrich gathered a quality cast including European superstar Catherine Deneuve, gnarled veterans Ernest Borgnine, Ben Johnson and Eddie Albert, Aldrich regular Paul Winfield, and, in a memorable blink and you’ll miss it appearance, Freddie Kruger-to-be Robert Englund. 

For such a box-office hit, Hustle remains surprisingly underseen. This is a rare chance to experience one of the bleakest neo-noirs of the 1970s on the big screen. 

This event is part Other Ways of Seeing, an initiative supported by BFI awarding funds from National Lottery co-curated by Ellen Smith and Andy Willis (Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME) in collaboration with Cube volunteer Jake Agwunobi. 

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