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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.) The movie begins in Joliet, Illinois, in ...
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English. Budget. $5.5 million [1] Box office. $257 million. The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters ( Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss ( Robert Shaw ). [2] The film was directed by George Roy Hill, [3] who had previously directed Newman and Redford ...
- $5.5 million
- Marvin Hamlisch
- December 25, 1973
Oct 27, 2021 · Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, on October 2, 1951. He is best known for his singing career, both with the 1980s band The Police and as a solo ...
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1996: Sting performed at the Pala Palaeur in Rome, Italy. More Ridley Scott's film 'White Squall' was released in the UK. The soundtrack features the Sting track 'Valparaiso' which was especially written for this film. 1991: Sting performed at the Statenhal in Den Haag, Holland.
The Sting. "The Sting" is one of the most stylish movies of the year. That's an especially pleasant surprise because it reunites the co-stars and the director of " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ," a movie I thought was overrated. The director is George Roy Hill, and the stars are those two good old buddies Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Aug 28, 2020 · Like the con men’s sting, Hill’s gamble paid off. Juiced up by Hamlisch’s strings, horns, winds and percussion, Joplin’s rags were a perfect, playful accompaniment to the onscreen cat-and ...
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