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    Sting, The (1973)

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    Quite clearly designed to exploit the successful teaming of Paul Newman and Robert Redford in 1969’sΒ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, George Roy Hill’s confidence trickster comedyΒ The Sting, reunited the pair in a twisty 1930s tale of bluff and double-bluff.

    Set in post-Depression Chicago, the movie is a self-conscious re-creation of a past based less on reality than on books, movies and television. That it also happened to be released in the middle of a nostalgia boom did not hurt its performance at the box-office.

    Johnny Hooker (Redford) is initially partnered with Robert Earl Jones who is killed early in the film by big-time gangster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Big-time con man Henry Gondorff (Newman) is down on his luck and staying in a brothel when Hooker finds him.

    The remainder of the movie deals with a revenge plot to even the score – although this is done by extracting money rather than blood (it hurts the bad guy more!).

    As befits a story of deceit and double-cross, the plot’s poker-faced elaborations of bluff and double-bluff often catch out the audience as much as some of the characters.

    The card game on the once-famous New York to Chicago trainΒ The Twentieth Century, and the elaborate build-up to the film’s pivotal scene, both carry a few surprises and shock waves for the unwary.

    The musical arrangements of Marvin Hamlisch immortalised the hitherto little-known piano rags of Scott Joplin.

    The movie won the Best Film Oscar and George Roy Hill took home the Best Director award.

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    Henry Gondorff
    Paul Newman
    Johnny HookerΒ 

    Robert Redford
    Doyle Lonnegan
    Robert Shaw
    Luther Coleman
    Robert Earl Jones
    Lt. Wm. Snyder
    Charles Durning
    J.J. Singleton
    Ray Walston
    Billie
    Eileen Brennan
    Kid Twist
    Harold Gould
    Eddie Niles
    John Heffernan
    FBI Agent Polk
    Dana Elcar
    Erie Kid
    Jack Kehoe
    Loretta
    Dimitra Arliss
    MottolaΒ 
    James Sloyan
    FloydΒ 
    Charles Dierkop
    Crystal
    Sally Kirkland
    Benny Garfield
    Avon Long
    Combs
    Arch Johnson
    Granger
    Ed Bakey
    Cole
    Brad Sullivan
    Riley
    John Quade
    Alva Coleman
    Paulene Myers
    Duke Boudreau
    Jack Collins
    Curly Jackson
    Tom Spratley
    Greer
    Kenneth O’Brien

    Director
    George Roy Hill

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