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Hustle: Season 3
Starring: Adrian Lester , Jaime Murray
Produced by: Lucy Robinson
Written by: Tony Jordan
Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations.
Item Number: 14159
- Format:
- DVD Widescreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 6 hours
- Number of Discs:
- 2
- Closed Captions / Subtitles:
- Not available for this product
- Special Features:
- It?s Just Like Playing ? An insightful interview with the cast
The con is on?again! The
third time's a charm for fans of this acclaimed action series.
Strapped for cash after a spell in Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted
with some tricky situations. Will the gang pay a heavy price after a con
against a notorious mark goes wrong? Will a matchless American con
artist double-cross the gang before they score? And how soon will a greedy
sweatshop owner, a sleazy tabloid editor and a corrupt cop learn that the
greatest con of all is to con another grifter? Critically hailed as "undeniably
appealing" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), and "a captivating look at con men
that hits the small screen with cinematic flair" (Variety), Hustle stars Adrian
Lester (Spiderman 3), Marc Warren (Band of Brothers), Robert Glenister (A
Touch of Frost), Jaime Murray (Agatha Christie's Poirot) and screen legend
Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).
Includes all 6 episodes from Season 3:
Includes all 6 episodes from Season 3:
Episode 1
Fresh from an expensive spell in Las Vegas, the team are strapped for cash and desperate to get back into the game. Their first mark is Benny Frazier (Mel Smith), an obnoxious pub owner who smuggles in illegal immigrants to work for him. His son Joey (Ben Smith - no relation to Mel) is the apple of his eye and seemingly Benny?s only weak spot. Joey is keen to hit the big time as a British Eminem, but the budding rap artist must be the most talentless fool they have ever had the pleasure to con. Never one to turn down a challenge, Albert ropes Benny in by telling him about a friend who is big in the record industry (Danny). As usual, Danny speaks before putting his brain in gear and promises not only to take Joey to the exclusive and prestigious MOBOs, but to get his demo played on BBC Radio 1. After blagging entry into the MOBOs, Ash hunts down a rather tipsy Sara Cox (playing herself) and sneakily stashes a copy of Joey?s single in her handbag. Posing as a big-shot American hip hop record producer, Mickey is the man that is going to make Joey?s dream come true. Thrilled to be rubbing shoulders with his idols and industry moguls, Joey is brimming with joy. When Joey?s record is played on Radio 1, Benny is putty in their hands. Having gained his trust, Mickey convinces Benny to part with ?100,000 to get Joey?s record promotions going. However, Benny catches on to the con, and it?s up to Ash to hatch a plan B ? with a little help from the police...
Episode 2
The power struggle between Mickey and Danny is as fierce as ever and shows no signs of abating. Both of them claim to be the best man to lead the team, and no amount of arguing is going to settle the dispute. In an attempt to end the bickering, Albert offers a possible solution. An old American grifter?s settlement - The Henderson Challenge. The greatest test of grifter skill. As naked as the day they were born, Mickey and Danny are dropped in the middle of London. Armed only with their skills and charm, they are given six hours to collect as many valuables as they can and get back to their meeting point. Whoever?s haul has the highest monetary value wins ? it?s as simple as that. Ash is assigned to Mickey, while Stacie can assist Danny, but neither of them can suggest cons. ?You might be good at the la-di-da-di, complicated, haven?t-got-a-clue- what?s-going-on-till-the-end stuff,? Danny tells Mickey, ?but when it comes to out-there, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, who-can-get-the-most-in-the-quickest-time, I?ve got you beat hands down.? But Mickey, with his long-con specialist skills, is quietly confident. The bets are on and the odds are stacked in Mickey?s favour, but Danny has a few tricks up his newly acquired sleeve. Mickey?s sense of fair play leads him to declare he will walk away from the group if he loses, leaving Danny in charge. So the outcome means big changes could be ahead for the group...
Episode 3
There?s a new grifter in town and he is in search of a great crew. The stranger is the grandson of the legendary 19thcentury American con artist James Whittaker Wright (JW1), who made a fortune flogging fake gold mines on the stock market by using Cornfoots Merchant Bank. When JW1?s fortune became too much for the bank, they turned on him and left him to die penniless. His grandson, James Whittaker Wright III aka JW3 (Richard Chamberlain) has come to avenge his death. Initially wary, the Hustle crew accept the challenge ? bringing down a greedy bank and outwitting a fellow grifter is far too tempting. With the gang?s expertise, they are going to take down Quenton (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Charles Cornfoot (Terence Harvey). Danny poses as a brash city entrepreneur eager to float his mining company on the stock market, whilst Stacie plays a market analyst working on the inside. Having agreed to set up the flotation, the Cornfoots employ a Dutch oil consultant (Ash) to fuel rumours about the company?s impending success and start selling shares to JW3 and Albert, their newly found investors. Danny irritates the Cornfoots to the point of no return; they turn sour and plot his downfall. Fully prepared, the team ups its game, but whilst their attention is focused on the marks, they forget just how devious JW3 is. He is sure to double-cross them ? it?s not a matter of if, but when. After all, the greatest con of all is to con another grifter.
Episode 4
Harold (Renu Setna), an old friend of Albert?s, summons the team to take revenge on Kulvinda Samar (Silas Carson), a greedy sweat-shop owner who has caused pain and suffering to Harold?s sisters and the Asian community for many years. Samar is an ardent fan of Bollywood films ? a perfect target for a classic movie-investor con. The team?s knowledge of Bollywood is limited, but, as ever, the con must be perfect. Producer Gerard Bruce (Mickey) is making a Bollywood film aimed at the western market with a British cast. Regular film investor, Harry Kaplan (Albert), is out of his depth and knows nothing about Bollywood, so convinces Samar to invest in his place. Thrilled at the prospect of turning his dreams into reality, Samar agrees to the investment ? on condition he visits the set and meets the stars of the film, including the lead actress (Stacie) and director (Ash). But as perfectionist Samar mulls over this amazing offer, he figures it is too good to be true. Coming to the conclusion that he is being conned, he surprises his chauffeur (Danny) so much with this revelation that he crashes. At the hospital, Danny reveals that Samar rumbled them because they were too perfect. The con is off, until Albert discovers that Samar has amnesia. The crew decides that such a vulgar character deserves to be conned again ? but with a little less perfection. As they replay the con, they are baffled by Samar?s apparent change in nature; he is no longer cruel and arrogant. Their grifter sense tells them to walk away ? but is Samar just playing them at their own game?
Episode 5
A newspaper?s scurrilous and completely false expos? on Stacie?s closest friend, Emily, leads the team to their next marks ? editor Frances Owen (Kenneth Cranham) and his weasely reporter Tim Millen (Paul Kaye). Both suffer from a serious lack of morals and are about to wish they had never been born. Stacie is furious when their actions lead to Emily?s attempted suicide. She is not after their money, she?s after their resignations. By the time she has finished with them, there will be nothing left of their reputations nor their careers. The gang intend to expose Owen by selling him a story with a surprising and shocking Royal connection. They convince Millen that he has the scoop of the century: the real Queen Mother died many years ago on a visit to the East End during The Blitz. In an attempt to cover up the death, a doppelganger was recruited. Her name was Cynthia Felgate and Danny has tracked down Cynthia?s long-lost son, Albert, to break the biggest royal scandal ever. After conclusive DNA tests, Millen falls hook, line and sinker for the scam and is convinced he?s going to blow the competition out of the water. Little does he know that Mickey is already in secret talks with their biggest rival and is about to expose them for the greedy, immoral creeps that they are. The rival newspaper grabs the opportunity to humiliate Millen and Owen in the most excruciatingly embarrassing way possible ? simply by exposing their gullibility, stupidity and greed... This episode features a cameo appearance by Martin Townsend, editor of the Sunday Express, who plays himself.
Episode 6
Our heroes are still on a high from their latest triumph when they are hauled off to the police station on false drug charges by ambitious, fearless cop, DCI York (Ian Puleston-Davies). York?s latest obsession is to catch notorious thief, Adam Rice (aka The Ghost) (Paul Nicholls). His plan is to blackmail the gang into doing his dirty work for him. Relishing his ingenuity, York promises to free the gang when they deliver Rice. But until they do, he is keeping Albert under lock and key. Having weighed up their options, the gang attempts to make contact with Rice, who lives up to his elusive reputation. They have to go to extraordinary lengths to track him down, then when they eventually make contact they have to convince him to join forces and pull off his next con together. Rice has been commissioned to steal a lost Hans Christian Andersen manuscript from inside a security-tight country-house the next night. The arrangement is that Mickey is to call York when they are in the house and Rice has the manuscript, so that York can catch him red-handed. However, York plans to arrest them all. With the security diverted, Rice, Mickey and Danny skydive into the grounds. A bad landing puts Rice out of the game and they have to go in without him. York arrives to reel in his prize-catch, only to discover they have outwitted him and disappeared into thin air. Rival police officer, Cooper (Charles Daish), arrives in time to catch a horrified York at the scene of the crime.
Fresh from an expensive spell in Las Vegas, the team are strapped for cash and desperate to get back into the game. Their first mark is Benny Frazier (Mel Smith), an obnoxious pub owner who smuggles in illegal immigrants to work for him. His son Joey (Ben Smith - no relation to Mel) is the apple of his eye and seemingly Benny?s only weak spot. Joey is keen to hit the big time as a British Eminem, but the budding rap artist must be the most talentless fool they have ever had the pleasure to con. Never one to turn down a challenge, Albert ropes Benny in by telling him about a friend who is big in the record industry (Danny). As usual, Danny speaks before putting his brain in gear and promises not only to take Joey to the exclusive and prestigious MOBOs, but to get his demo played on BBC Radio 1. After blagging entry into the MOBOs, Ash hunts down a rather tipsy Sara Cox (playing herself) and sneakily stashes a copy of Joey?s single in her handbag. Posing as a big-shot American hip hop record producer, Mickey is the man that is going to make Joey?s dream come true. Thrilled to be rubbing shoulders with his idols and industry moguls, Joey is brimming with joy. When Joey?s record is played on Radio 1, Benny is putty in their hands. Having gained his trust, Mickey convinces Benny to part with ?100,000 to get Joey?s record promotions going. However, Benny catches on to the con, and it?s up to Ash to hatch a plan B ? with a little help from the police...
Episode 2
The power struggle between Mickey and Danny is as fierce as ever and shows no signs of abating. Both of them claim to be the best man to lead the team, and no amount of arguing is going to settle the dispute. In an attempt to end the bickering, Albert offers a possible solution. An old American grifter?s settlement - The Henderson Challenge. The greatest test of grifter skill. As naked as the day they were born, Mickey and Danny are dropped in the middle of London. Armed only with their skills and charm, they are given six hours to collect as many valuables as they can and get back to their meeting point. Whoever?s haul has the highest monetary value wins ? it?s as simple as that. Ash is assigned to Mickey, while Stacie can assist Danny, but neither of them can suggest cons. ?You might be good at the la-di-da-di, complicated, haven?t-got-a-clue- what?s-going-on-till-the-end stuff,? Danny tells Mickey, ?but when it comes to out-there, flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, who-can-get-the-most-in-the-quickest-time, I?ve got you beat hands down.? But Mickey, with his long-con specialist skills, is quietly confident. The bets are on and the odds are stacked in Mickey?s favour, but Danny has a few tricks up his newly acquired sleeve. Mickey?s sense of fair play leads him to declare he will walk away from the group if he loses, leaving Danny in charge. So the outcome means big changes could be ahead for the group...
Episode 3
There?s a new grifter in town and he is in search of a great crew. The stranger is the grandson of the legendary 19thcentury American con artist James Whittaker Wright (JW1), who made a fortune flogging fake gold mines on the stock market by using Cornfoots Merchant Bank. When JW1?s fortune became too much for the bank, they turned on him and left him to die penniless. His grandson, James Whittaker Wright III aka JW3 (Richard Chamberlain) has come to avenge his death. Initially wary, the Hustle crew accept the challenge ? bringing down a greedy bank and outwitting a fellow grifter is far too tempting. With the gang?s expertise, they are going to take down Quenton (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Charles Cornfoot (Terence Harvey). Danny poses as a brash city entrepreneur eager to float his mining company on the stock market, whilst Stacie plays a market analyst working on the inside. Having agreed to set up the flotation, the Cornfoots employ a Dutch oil consultant (Ash) to fuel rumours about the company?s impending success and start selling shares to JW3 and Albert, their newly found investors. Danny irritates the Cornfoots to the point of no return; they turn sour and plot his downfall. Fully prepared, the team ups its game, but whilst their attention is focused on the marks, they forget just how devious JW3 is. He is sure to double-cross them ? it?s not a matter of if, but when. After all, the greatest con of all is to con another grifter.
Episode 4
Harold (Renu Setna), an old friend of Albert?s, summons the team to take revenge on Kulvinda Samar (Silas Carson), a greedy sweat-shop owner who has caused pain and suffering to Harold?s sisters and the Asian community for many years. Samar is an ardent fan of Bollywood films ? a perfect target for a classic movie-investor con. The team?s knowledge of Bollywood is limited, but, as ever, the con must be perfect. Producer Gerard Bruce (Mickey) is making a Bollywood film aimed at the western market with a British cast. Regular film investor, Harry Kaplan (Albert), is out of his depth and knows nothing about Bollywood, so convinces Samar to invest in his place. Thrilled at the prospect of turning his dreams into reality, Samar agrees to the investment ? on condition he visits the set and meets the stars of the film, including the lead actress (Stacie) and director (Ash). But as perfectionist Samar mulls over this amazing offer, he figures it is too good to be true. Coming to the conclusion that he is being conned, he surprises his chauffeur (Danny) so much with this revelation that he crashes. At the hospital, Danny reveals that Samar rumbled them because they were too perfect. The con is off, until Albert discovers that Samar has amnesia. The crew decides that such a vulgar character deserves to be conned again ? but with a little less perfection. As they replay the con, they are baffled by Samar?s apparent change in nature; he is no longer cruel and arrogant. Their grifter sense tells them to walk away ? but is Samar just playing them at their own game?
Episode 5
A newspaper?s scurrilous and completely false expos? on Stacie?s closest friend, Emily, leads the team to their next marks ? editor Frances Owen (Kenneth Cranham) and his weasely reporter Tim Millen (Paul Kaye). Both suffer from a serious lack of morals and are about to wish they had never been born. Stacie is furious when their actions lead to Emily?s attempted suicide. She is not after their money, she?s after their resignations. By the time she has finished with them, there will be nothing left of their reputations nor their careers. The gang intend to expose Owen by selling him a story with a surprising and shocking Royal connection. They convince Millen that he has the scoop of the century: the real Queen Mother died many years ago on a visit to the East End during The Blitz. In an attempt to cover up the death, a doppelganger was recruited. Her name was Cynthia Felgate and Danny has tracked down Cynthia?s long-lost son, Albert, to break the biggest royal scandal ever. After conclusive DNA tests, Millen falls hook, line and sinker for the scam and is convinced he?s going to blow the competition out of the water. Little does he know that Mickey is already in secret talks with their biggest rival and is about to expose them for the greedy, immoral creeps that they are. The rival newspaper grabs the opportunity to humiliate Millen and Owen in the most excruciatingly embarrassing way possible ? simply by exposing their gullibility, stupidity and greed... This episode features a cameo appearance by Martin Townsend, editor of the Sunday Express, who plays himself.
Episode 6
Our heroes are still on a high from their latest triumph when they are hauled off to the police station on false drug charges by ambitious, fearless cop, DCI York (Ian Puleston-Davies). York?s latest obsession is to catch notorious thief, Adam Rice (aka The Ghost) (Paul Nicholls). His plan is to blackmail the gang into doing his dirty work for him. Relishing his ingenuity, York promises to free the gang when they deliver Rice. But until they do, he is keeping Albert under lock and key. Having weighed up their options, the gang attempts to make contact with Rice, who lives up to his elusive reputation. They have to go to extraordinary lengths to track him down, then when they eventually make contact they have to convince him to join forces and pull off his next con together. Rice has been commissioned to steal a lost Hans Christian Andersen manuscript from inside a security-tight country-house the next night. The arrangement is that Mickey is to call York when they are in the house and Rice has the manuscript, so that York can catch him red-handed. However, York plans to arrest them all. With the security diverted, Rice, Mickey and Danny skydive into the grounds. A bad landing puts Rice out of the game and they have to go in without him. York arrives to reel in his prize-catch, only to discover they have outwitted him and disappeared into thin air. Rival police officer, Cooper (Charles Daish), arrives in time to catch a horrified York at the scene of the crime.
The cheeky con artists are back with more slow-motion long games, double switches and soft marks. Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations as they devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains. Scams include posing as a hip-hop record producer, a Bollywood movie-investor con, 'the royal scandal of the century', outwitting a bent cop, and joining forces with a top American grifter. And Albert comes up with an amusing way of solving the leadership challenge which involves Mickey and Danny displaying all of their charms.
?...amusing and highly ingenious...?-Daily Express
"...what a cracking show it is ... There are twists and turns throughout, neat camera trickery, and, though the grifting stretches credibility, the show is slick enough to carry it off."- Daily Mail
"...it's better than ever ... Slick plots and production values mean that there's a huge amount that's instantly appealing about Hustle, but the deeper roots of its attraction are fascinating too. These aren't really likeable characters, and they're doing totally immoral things. But they also seem strangely heroic, and the result has more glamour than any cop show."- Daily Telegraph
"The new series of Hustle continues to fizz with fun and ingenuity ... It is tremendous entertainment for a Friday night."- The Times
"Good fun."- Observer
"Hustle has a real seat-of-the-pants style that is so fresh and immediate ... Then there are the scripts. Put it this way: you wouldn't want to make a wager with the person who advises on the grifting tricks. Hugely enjoyable."- Daily Mail
"The new series of Hustle is more slapstick than previous outings, but it remains beautifully made and vertiginously improbable."- Sunday Telegraph
"...terrific series..."- Mail On Sunday
"...well-plotted ... kicks off with the funniest and cleverest episode to date ... the entire keep-it-real rap music industry, with its vacuous pretensions and ludicrous vernacular, is held up to ridicule. The ingenuity of the scam is breathtaking; so, too, is the fun that the cast have in donning their various disguises. It is wonderful end-of-the-week entertainment."- The Times
"...Hustle is back on top form with one of its best episodes ever. Any plot that involves the very buff Adrian Lester and Marc Warren running starkers through a packed Trafalgar Square can only be a good thing."- Daily Mirror
"...what a cracking show it is ... There are twists and turns throughout, neat camera trickery, and, though the grifting stretches credibility, the show is slick enough to carry it off."- Daily Mail
"...it's better than ever ... Slick plots and production values mean that there's a huge amount that's instantly appealing about Hustle, but the deeper roots of its attraction are fascinating too. These aren't really likeable characters, and they're doing totally immoral things. But they also seem strangely heroic, and the result has more glamour than any cop show."- Daily Telegraph
"The new series of Hustle continues to fizz with fun and ingenuity ... It is tremendous entertainment for a Friday night."- The Times
"Good fun."- Observer
"Hustle has a real seat-of-the-pants style that is so fresh and immediate ... Then there are the scripts. Put it this way: you wouldn't want to make a wager with the person who advises on the grifting tricks. Hugely enjoyable."- Daily Mail
"The new series of Hustle is more slapstick than previous outings, but it remains beautifully made and vertiginously improbable."- Sunday Telegraph
"...terrific series..."- Mail On Sunday
"...well-plotted ... kicks off with the funniest and cleverest episode to date ... the entire keep-it-real rap music industry, with its vacuous pretensions and ludicrous vernacular, is held up to ridicule. The ingenuity of the scam is breathtaking; so, too, is the fun that the cast have in donning their various disguises. It is wonderful end-of-the-week entertainment."- The Times
"...Hustle is back on top form with one of its best episodes ever. Any plot that involves the very buff Adrian Lester and Marc Warren running starkers through a packed Trafalgar Square can only be a good thing."- Daily Mirror
Cast
Mickey Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Lester
Albert Stroller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Vaughn
Danny Blue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marc Warren
Ash Morgan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Glenister
Stacie Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jaime Murray
Billy Bond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ashley Walters
Production Credits
Created and Written by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tony Jordan
Produced by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lucy Robinson
Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Yorke
Mickey Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Adrian Lester
Albert Stroller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Vaughn
Danny Blue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marc Warren
Ash Morgan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Glenister
Stacie Monroe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jaime Murray
Billy Bond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ashley Walters
Production Credits
Created and Written by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Tony Jordan
Produced by. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lucy Robinson
Executive Producer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .John Yorke
