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La cité des dangers

Original title: Hustle
  • 1975
  • 12
  • 2h
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
3.1K
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La cité des dangers (1975)
At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.
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At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

  • Director
    • Robert Aldrich
  • Writer
    • Steve Shagan
  • Stars
    • Burt Reynolds
    • Catherine Deneuve
    • Ben Johnson
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    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
    • Writer
      • Steve Shagan
    • Stars
      • Burt Reynolds
      • Catherine Deneuve
      • Ben Johnson
    • 45User reviews
    • 58Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    Burt Reynolds
    Burt Reynolds
    • Lt. Phil Gaines
    Catherine Deneuve
    Catherine Deneuve
    • Nicole Britton
    Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson
    • Marty Hollinger
    Paul Winfield
    Paul Winfield
    • Sgt. Louis Belgrave
    Eileen Brennan
    Eileen Brennan
    • Paula Hollinger
    Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert
    • Leo Sellers
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • Santoro
    Catherine Bach
    Catherine Bach
    • Peggy Summers
    Jack Carter
    Jack Carter
    • Herbie Dalitz
    James Hampton
    James Hampton
    • Bus Driver
    Colleen Brennan
    Colleen Brennan
    • Gloria Hollinger
    • (as Sharon Kelly)
    Chuck Hayward
    Chuck Hayward
    • Morgue Attendant
    David Estridge
    • Albino
    Peter Brandon
    • Minister
    David Spielberg
    David Spielberg
    • Jerry Bellamy
    Naomi Stevens
    Naomi Stevens
    • Woman Hostage
    Med Flory
    Med Flory
    • Albino-Beating Cop
    Steve Shaw
    • Cop in Elevator
    • Director
      • Robert Aldrich
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      • Steve Shagan
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    Lechuguilla

    "Yesterday When I Was Young"

    Burt Reynolds plays Phil Gaines, a middle-aged California cop plagued by a midlife crisis. His wife is seeing someone else, and he's in love with Nicole (lovely Catherine Deneuve), a prostitute. His job as cop entails endless frustrations not only with criminals but also with victim relatives, two of whom are Marty Hollinger (Ben Johnson) and Marty's wife Paula (Eileen Brennan), whose daughter was found dead on the beach. And the case is Phil's to investigate.

    Some viewers will object to the film's admittedly slow pace. And the film does have a problem, but I don't think it's the pace. I think the problem here is that the script doesn't give us enough reason to care about Phil Gaines and his life as a cop. That he dates a prostitute does not help. There's also insufficient back-story about him. Except for his love life, we really don't get to know him very well, certainly not well enough to foreshadow the film's implausible double climax.

    Perhaps the script's biggest flaw, however, is its lack of focus. Too much screen time is given to the Marty Hollinger character and his silly efforts to solve the case of his daughter's death, on his own. Whose story is this: Phil Gaines' or Marty Hollinger's?

    But "Hustle" is not a bad movie, really it isn't. The casting and acting are fine. I thought Eileen Brennan especially gave a memorable performance. The film's production design is good. And color cinematography is terrific. I really liked those outdoor scenes on the deck where Phil and Nicole chat about life and love, with "Yesterday When I Was Young" playing in the background. Such scenes convey a melancholy, nostalgic mood, consistent with Phil's midlife crisis.

    Although the screenplay is flawed, "Hustle" is still worth watching at least once, for the underlying character study of a cop in midlife crisis, for the fine acting, and for the film's excellent cinematography and production values.
    jcohen1

    Sorry I Don't Dance

    Alternate and original title (all comments from 28 year old memory) City of Angels. I saw this movie while on 3-4 hour break from college classes in lower Manhattan. Burt plays Burt. His character is a little too worldly to be believable, yet I love this picture. Deneuve is hot and Burt daydreams about retiring to Italy with her where they can open a liquor store. Burt keeps saying "Bingo" every few minutes. He had to be cheating. Seriously, the film is serious product placement for Bushmill's Irish Whiskey. After watching the flick I went out and got bombed on the stuff. Wound up Millstoned for 28 years. Recently got released. Has Burt made a good movie since I was in?
    7tvnutt

    A few more roles like this and Burt could have been a contender.

    Burt Reynolds really channels a young Marlon Brando in this film. He plays Lt. Phil Gains and is a cool character who doesn't like to get too close to people(he has a penchant for 30's style music and vernacular). He lives with his girlfriend, played by Catherine Deneuve, who happens to be a Call Girl but neither of them are willing to give up the dangers(mental and physical) of their careers. However, they dream about running off to Europe. It's as if they are afraid of what will happen if they do.

    To sum it up, Gains is called in to investigate the body of a young girl found dead on a beach. It is ruled a suicide but the girl's parents, mainly her father, refuse to believe it. The father, played by actor Ben Johnson, is seeking revenge and Gains wants to be one step ahead of him.

    To me, the standout in this film is actor Eddie Albert, who I've always had a crush on. This is probably the creepiest role he ever played. He's a lawyer with mob connections and won't let anyone stand in his way. He is also a client of Deneuve's character and grins ear-to-ear when talking about the dead girl and the pleasure he and friends got from her. We're talking HUGE creep factor here. In one scene he refers to the girl by saying "She could get milk out of a crowbar." Don't think I need to explain THAT line.

    This film is the typical 1970's cop film with lounge jazz music playing over a car scene. Pretty tame by today's standards but did earn an R-rating. There is reference to a porno film that is supposed to feature Albert's character Leo Sellers(again pushing that creep factor up!). "Hustle" is probably one of Burt's more forgettable films but it is fun to see him take to a role so seriously after seeing him in Smokey and his other action films.
    7lee_eisenberg

    Switzerland also has that Nazi gold, don't forget.

    Having collaborated on "The Longest Yard", director Robert Aldrich cast Burt Reynolds and Eddie Albert again in the enigmatic "Hustle". Reynolds plays LA cop Phil Gaines. He and his wife have basically no relationship, so Phil lives with call girl Nicole Britton (Catherine Deneuve). When a young woman gets found dead on the beach one day, Phil and his colleague Louis Belgrave (Paul Winfield) get hired to investigate. They conclude that she died of a self-induced drug overdose. But they don't tell her parents (Ben Johnson and Eileen Brennan) that there were massive amounts of semen in all three orifices of the woman's body, and that the woman was a stripper in a nightclub. The father is convinced that this was not a suicide, and is determined to investigate on his own if necessary.

    I have to say that the movie has a rather convoluted plot: the number of characters - and the question of each character's relationship to each other - makes the whole thing hard to follow at times. As it is, following the revelation of the body at the beginning, the movie sort of throws Phil into the story from right out of the blue. It seems that mostly, the movie functions as a look at the underbelly of 1970s LA, including a hostage situation in one scene. And, if all else fails, there's always something sexy for Catherine Deneuve to do (namely the part about what Switzerland has). A surprise appearance - although they do credit him - is Ernest Borgnine as Phil and Louis's superior; he's the only character who seems as if he's about to have a seizure or something.

    Overall, I think that the movie is seeing, if only once. While it is true that the movie progresses pretty slowly, I actually would assert that that adds some realism: not every detective/action story has to be a series of explosions and mayhem.

    All in all, a worthwhile movie. BTW, did you notice who the hold up man at the end is? It's Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund. And I wonder if David Spielberg is related to Steven Spielberg.

    Sammy Davis Jr. hugging Nixon...
    9BOLTZ2U

    Wrong Movie, but Hustle still hustles way cool...

    Hustle is a terrific film with a a really nice performance by the always under used (the late great) Paul Winfield, he and Burt Reynolds work well together and Eddie Albert is scary as the low life "leo sellers". the stunt the one reviewer is talking about re: albino actor falling from high rise while blasting his pistol into camera is the late great, Dar Robinson from Reynolds' other film, "stick" in the early eighties. i'm glad this is on DVD now and finally a Reinold's' film that is letter boxed. i hope they can re-do the other films IE: "white lightning", "gator" and "shamus" in letterbox form especially "gator" cause it was shot in Todd A-O scope.

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    • Trivia
      Robert Englund: The "A Nightmare on Elm Street" franchise star as "Hold-up Man". This was Englund's third film.
    • Goofs
      Rght after Hollinger punches Gaines in the morgue, there's a red welt near Gaines' left eye. In the next shot, the welt is gone.
    • Quotes

      Lt. Phil Gaines: Don't you know where you live, Marty? Can't you smell the bananas? You know what country you live in? You live in Guatamala with color television.

    • Connections
      Featured in I love you, je t'aime (1979)
    • Soundtracks
      Yesterday when I was Young
      (Hier Encore)

      Music by Charles Aznavour

      French lyrics by Charles Aznavour

      English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer

      Sung by Charles Aznavour

      Courtesy of Barclay Records

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    • Release date
      • March 24, 1976 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hustle
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - 3911 S. Figueroa Street, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA(football game)
    • Production companies
      • Paramount Pictures
      • Churchill Service Company
      • RoBurt
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    • Budget
      • $3,050,000 (estimated)
    • Gross worldwide
      • $465,788
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    • Runtime
      • 2h(120 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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