An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.
Down
in the dumps drama is realistically set and brilliantly photographed in
sleazy pool halls, cheap hotels and worn-down bats and diners, where
its downward spiraling tale seems all too inevitable; top performances
all around, but Paul Newman is absolutely perfect in the title role.
Haliwell****: "Downbeat melodrama with brilliantly handled and atmospheric pool table scenes; the love interest is redundant."
Maltin***: "Newman is outstanding...Dingy pool-hall atmosphere vividly realized in this incisive film."
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