Hustle (1975)

A young girl's (Colleen Brennan) dead body is found on a beach. Her death is listed as a suicide from an overdose of barbiturates. But the girl's father (Ben Johnson) refuses to believe the autopsy report and two cops (Burt Reynolds, Paul Winfield) investigate further. Directed by Robert Aldrich (THE DIRTY DOZEN). Not only did the film not work for me, I found it morally reprehensible. But if you're one of those people who love movies where people take the law into their own hands and bend it to suit their personal agenda then maybe this is a movie for you. It just made me feel slimy. There are really three stories contained in the film and that's part of the problem. If it had focused on one more than other two, that might have helped. In addition to the police procedural, there's the father's story and then the romance between Reynolds and a call girl (Catherine Deneuve). Deneuve is wasted, it's not much of a role and I suspect she did it to work for Aldrich who the French admire very much. But it's really an ugly movie. With Ernest Borgnine, Eddie Albert, Eileen Brennan, Jack Carter and Robert Englund.