4K UHD Review – East End Hustle

Co-writer/director Frank Vitale looks to get ugly with 1976's "East End Hustle," which is his take on the sordid ways of Canadian crime and punishment. It's a rough study of characters hunting for some type of liberation, focusing on the actions of prostitutes who've had enough of their abusive pimp, looking to make a break to preserve what's left of their sanity. Vitale and co-writer/actor Allan Moyle (who would go on to direct "Pump Up the Volume" and "Empire Records") has something sleazy in mind with "East End Hustle," but they don't have the instincts for exploitation cinema, remaining static with material that should always be on the move, and vicious activity is mostly dispiriting when the production is clearly aiming to provide something more thrilling. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com