The Sting (1973)
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STORY LINE
Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill
re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays
Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and
mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by
racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hoping to avenge
Luther's death, Johnny begins planning a "sting" -- an elaborate scam --
to destroy Lonnegan. He enlists the
aid of "the greatest con artist of them all," Henry Gondorff (Paul
Newman), who pulls himself out of a drunken stupor and rises to the
occasion. Hooker and Gondorff gather together an impressive array of con
men, all of whom despise Lonnegan and wish to settle accounts on behalf
of Luther. The twists and surprises that follow are too complex to
relate in detail -- suffice to say that you can't cheat an honest man,
and that you shouldn't accept everything at face value. The Sting became
one of the biggest hits of the early '70s; grossing 68.5 million
dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy
Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best
Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott
Joplin's ragtime music.
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