The Sting
1973
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Plot. In 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie con $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim in Joliet, Illinois. Hooker loses his share of the con on a rigged roulette game, while Luther, buoyed by the windfall, decides to retire.
Dec 25, 1973 · Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con on a crime boss in 1930s America. The film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture, and features Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw.
- (280K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- George Roy Hill
- 1973-12-25
A classic con movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two hustlers who fleece a rich gambler in 1930s Chicago. Roger Ebert praises the movie's style, humor, and plot complexity in his review.
6 days ago · The Sting, American caper movie, released in 1973, that was one of the most popular films of the 1970s and the second on-screen pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. It won seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
- Pat Bauer
Following the murder of a mutual friend, aspiring con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) teams up with old pro Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) to take revenge on the ruthless crime boss responsible,...
- (110)
- George Roy Hill
- PG
- Paul Newman
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the classic con movie The Sting, directed by George Roy Hill and written by David S. Ward. See the full cast and crew list, including Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, and more.
A classic con movie starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as two grifters who team up to take revenge on a ruthless mobster. They devise a complex scheme to swindle Lonnegan out of a huge sum of money in a high-stakes poker game.
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