Hustle (1975)

 Second viewing; first viewing with original audio; previously viewed on November 5, 1995

A police detective is on a relationship with a whore. He is working on the case of the apparent suicide of a young woman.

I wonder how much of this film I had managed to understand on my previous viewing, seeing as the dialogue of the dubbed version is incorrectly translated at some key points -- probably due to censorship in Brazil. Well, anyhow, I was hoping to enjoy this film more this time, listening to the original audio. The fact is that it is not very enjoyable. The main problem is the terribly uninspired dialogue. By the way, at one point I presume the author must have been playing a joke on the viewer. The two cops are talking:

Belgrave: So you still think Sellers is clean?

Gaines: Yeah, I think he's clean.

Belgrave: The Summers girl admitted that Leo was the man in the photo.

Gaines: She didn't say Leo who.

Belgrave: No, she's scared of him. She's also afraid of Marty.

Considering that both cops knew Leo Sellers's face, the line "She didn't say Leo who." and the following one do not make sense. An unspoken thesis conveyed by this film seems to be that it's not a worse deal for a man to live with a whore than it is for a woman to live with a cop.

Rating: 31 (up from 21)