Posted on 04/23/2021 8:12:15 PM PDT by FLNittany
Good flick.
An incredible movie and rough as hell.
George C. Scott screaming “You owe me MONEY!” to Eddie at the end will send chills down your spine.
I think Paul had to actually learn how to shoot pool at a high level. That wasn’t some stunt player holding the cue stick.
For some pool players, that little block of chalk is a very important part of the ritual. You would think there was some magic ointment embedded in the chalk.
Not me, but some people just have the knack to send those balls where they want; domino effects and all.
Gleason was an accomplished pool player. Newman was learning, but good. Mosconi stood in for the tough shots for Newman (like the masse).
I know Newman was a lib and his proceeds from his food products probably support liberal charities, but his products are damn good. I had his Caesar salad dressing and it tasted better than the Ken’s salad dressing I normally buy.
Fast Eddie, feeling no pain, during the first session against Fats: “I’m the best there is Fats, I’m the best ya ever seen.....even if ya beat me I’m still the best!”
Jackie was the greatest!
I thought Alice was.
Yes...quite good.
I just watched “The Mackintosh Man” for the first time and enjoyed it. Good action movie.
“Perverted, TWISTED, crippled”
“Rack ‘em, Willie”*
“Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool.”
“You too, Fast Eddie”
*Willie the rack boy was played by champion shooter Willie Mosconi
IIRC, Jacky Gleason took all his own shots in the movie and Mosconi took Newman’s more difficult ones.
You left out:
“I’m shootin’ pool Fats. When I miss, you can shoot”.
In the 60s I spent more time than I’d like to admit in Ames’ pool hall.
Around 9-10 AM you’d see a whole bunch of guys in suits there. All with a NY Times classified section under their arm. Like them, I was supposed to be job hunting.
LOL
Yeah, I did.
To say he was multi-talented doesn’t do him “Justus.”
Sorry for the spelling gaffe.
I was a young boy when my father took me to see this film. What impressed me then, and impresses me more now, is how faithfully it evoked a sense of a place, time, and culture, fading then, and long gone now.
Great movie. Great cast.
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