A Sting was an Oscar winning caper film from 1973 based in the 1930s and centered around the convoluted plot by 2 broker "grifters" (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). A story is depending within sectiin on realistic bunko game documented by David W. Maurer around his book A Heavy Con: A Story of the Con man.

A film is divided into distinct sections by having old-passe title cards. These are noted for its score -- particularly its theme song, "The Entertainer" -- a piano rag by Scott Joplin, which was lightly adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch.

The major box office success, it was the greatest grossing film of 1974, taking in to a higher degree US$160 million.

A sequel, The Sting II appeared in 1983.

The deluxe DVD edition, The Sting: Favorite Edition, section of the Universal Legacy Series, was freed inside September 2005, featuring a "making of" all about a film, & interviews of cast & crew.

Plot
A flick follows Johnny Hooker (Redford), a microscopic-nickel-and-dime con-human world health organization, by using his confederate Luther Coleman, manages to swipe $12,000 around money from either a "numbers" (an early, illegal version of the lottery) off of a courier for Doyle Lonnegan. While Doyle finds out that his money is no more, he has Luther flushed & puts out men to stamp out Johnny too. Getting wasted his newly discovered wealth in the spin of the roulette wheel in an underground casino, Johnny can't last anywhere. He decides for retaliation for Luther, & a exclusively way to clean that is to 'study from either a better' - therein outbreak, Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), a previous con-artist world health organization nowadays sleep in the back of an amusement hall that doubles as a house of prostitution. Henry warns Johnny just about a dangers of running fallowing Doyle Lonnegan, however Johnny is intransigent. Henry decides to help, around a share for the 1 endure 'large score'.

A merely way it may make their way confessedly retaliatiin on Lonnegan is by lifting him of his money. Still, Doyle occurs as ache human - he's non astir to become taken inside the elementary confidence scheme. It so decide in an elaborate project. Making Doyle think that Johnny (world health organization goes per title of Kelly before of Lonnegan) knows soul in the Western Union office, Johnny convinces Lonnegan that they could waround money in 'Shaw's' (Henry's) underground casino by inducing a American Uniin human to relay a winners of a horse race to the babies, holding on to the tools for two or three proceedings, so broadcasting it all over the radio to the underground casino. (Actually, it'd make their way the play-by-play off the ticker tape wire, so own mortal in the back talking across a mike to healthy rather it're hearing it off a radio)

When in case this wasn't the complicated plenty scheme to lure Lonnegan around by using, Johnny has to hard-hitting stay away from corrupt law Lt. Snyder (Charles Durning) who is hot in his posterior (Snyder was wanting to find the cut of the money Johnny experienced lifted from either Lonnegan's human at a beginning of the picture). Meanwhile, FBI agents make their presence known to Hooker and try to coerce him into helping the children capture Gondorff. To add to everthing that, Lonnegan grows thwarted of his men good missing Johnny at his flat & decides to bring inside a agency to finish the job of killing him...

Primary cast:
Paul Newman : Henry Gondorff aka Shaw Robert Redford : Johnny Hooker aka Kelly Robert Shaw : Doyle Lonnegan Charles Durning : Lt. William Snyder Ray Walston : J.J. Singleton Eileen Brennan : Billie Harold Gould : Kid Twist John Heffernan : Eddie Niles Dana Elcar : FBI Agent Polk Larry D. Mann : Mr. Clemens Sally Kirkland : Crystal Jack Kehoe : Joe Erie Robert Earl Jones : Luther Coleman

Award wins: Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Directing - (George Roy Hill) Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - (George Roy Hill) Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - (David S. Ward) Academy Award for Best Art Direction - (Henry Bumstead & James W. Payne) Academy Award for Best Costume Design - (Edith Head) Academy Award for Film Editing - (William H. Reynolds) Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation - (Marvin Hamlisch)

Award nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor - (Robert Redford) Academy Award for Best Cinematography - (Robert Surtees) Academy Award for Sound - (Ronald Pierce & Robert R. Bertrand) Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay - Motion Picture - (David S. Ward) WGA Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen - (David S. Ward)

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