i guess only a select number of audience member really have any interest in watch how a male hustler in new york operate but i would be willing to bet that even these brave soul be turn off by the irritating patchwork technique and deliberately muffle sound record on display here while the fact that these inherent wouldefects be a direct result of the film low budget or underground or experimental nature be and i would say and beside the point . anyway and for those so inclined and the film feature extensive male nudity and joe dallesandro and understandably and become an underground and gay icon . the episodic structure show the day to day routine of the hustler protagonist offer a couple of mildly interesting scene represent his meeting with ( and eventually pose for ) an eccentric elderly artist while the one where dallesandro express his view on his unusual line of work and delineate his particular modus operandi to a couple of prospective colleague include perhaps the unlikeliest of hustler a bespectacled nerd . perhaps mercifully and the film run for only 89 minute against the imdb claim that it complete length be 105 ( but the latter could well be a mistake ) . i have watch a few other of warhol amovies and this one be decidedly not as satisfy a the most tolerable example i have run into yet and bad ( 1977 ) and and only slightly good than the like of my hustler ( 1965 ) which be mostly a strain to sit through . the fact that this be only the first part of a trilogy do not augur well but and a the saying go and you get ta to do what you get ta do and the other two chapter have to follow in quick succession . despite my generally negative reaction to it and flesh be nevertheless still valuable a a 1960s time capsule and a a prototype of the underground scene of that era and both cinematically and in real life . for the record and an image of dallesandro from this film adorn the sleeve of the smith self title 1984 debut album and transsexual candy darling ( who appear here rather unremarkably ) be immortalize in candy say and the opening track of the velvet underground eponymous 1969 album . although the latter band be my all time favorite and and one of the reason for this be that and through their sheerly unique and ground breaking music and they describe a lifestyle so utterly different from my own and this be truly a case where i would much rather experience something aurally instead of visually .