Newman is cocky poolroom hustler “Fast” Eddie Felson in Robert Rossen’s cool, smoky drama set in the shadowy world of dingy bars and seedy poolrooms.
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‘Empire Falls’ on Amazon Prime
Empire Falls (2005) – Paul Newman found one of the great roles of his career in the Robert Benton’s film of Richard Russo’s Nobody’s Fool (1994), playing a gently reckless cock-up of a father who gets an unexpected second chance to help his son. So it’s no surprise that he jumped at the chance to […]
Paul Newman in ‘Hombre’ on Netflix and Amazon Prime
Hombre (1967), adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard, plays as a ruthless, revisionist take on Stagecoach. Paul Newman is the blue eyed “savage,” a white man raised by the Indians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, who has chosen to go native rather than live in the lies and corruption of […]