Hustle

Hustle is a 1975 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Burt Reynolds and Catherine Deneuve. Plot A group of field trip students and a teacher discover a woman's dead body at the beach. Two Los Angeles Police Department detectives, Phil Gaines and Louis Belgrave, are assigned to the homicide investigation. The case appears to be a suicide but things do not add up. The deceased, Gloria Hollinger, overdosed, yet the trail leads back to Leo Sellers, a wealthy and corrupt attorney. Gaines and Belgrave do not believe Gloria's death to be suicide based on information from Gaines' girlfriend, Nicole, a call girl. But they cannot close the case. Along the way, the detectives learn that Marty, Gloria's father and a headstrong veteran of the Korean War, did not believe the official report either and attempts to solve the case himself. He goes after Sellers and learns that Sellers was responsible for his daughter's death. Gaines and Belgrave track Marty to Sellers' mansion where they find Marty has just killed Sellers. Gaines stages it to look like self-defense, letting Marty off the hook for the crime. Gaines calls Nicole to reconcile, and they plan a trip to Rome. On his way to the airport, he stops in a convenience store and walks into the middle of an armed robbery. He trades fire with the assailant but is killed in the exchange. Belgrave goes to the airport terminal to inform Nicole, and without a word, she realizes that Gaines is gone. Cast Burt Reynolds as Lieutenant Phil Gaines Catherine Deneuve as Nicole Britton Ben Johnson as Marty Hollinger Paul Winfield as Sergeant Louis Belgrave Eileen Brennan as Paula Hollinger Eddie Albert as Leo Sellers Ernest Borgnine as Santuro Colleen Brennan as Gloria Hollinger Catherine Bach as Peggy Summers Jack Carter as Herbie Dalitz Robert Englund as hold-up man Production Reynolds brought the script for Aldrich, while filming The Longest Yard (1974).