The Sting
...all it takes is a little confidence.
Overview
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
- Budget
- $5,500,000
- Revenue
- $159,616,327
- Production
- Universal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company, Bill/Phillips Productions
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Cast
Paul Newman
Henry Gondorff
Robert Redford
Johnny Hooker
Robert Shaw
Doyle Lonnegan
Charles Durning
Lt. Wm. Snyder
Ray Walston
J.J. Singleton
Eileen Brennan
Billie
Harold Gould
Kid Twist
John Heffernan
Eddie Niles
Dana Elcar
F.B.I. Agent Polk
Jack Kehoe
Erie Kid
Dimitra Arliss
Loretta
Robert Earl Jones
Luther Coleman
James Sloyan
Mottola
Charles Dierkop
Floyd (Bodyguard)
Lee Paul
Bodyguard
Sally Kirkland
Crystal
Arch Johnson
Combs
Brad Sullivan
Cole
John Quade
Riley
Leonard Barr
Burlesque House Comedian
Crew
- Director
- George Roy Hill
- Writers
- David S. Ward
- Cinematography
- Robert Surtees
- Composer
- Marvin Hamlisch,Scott Joplin
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John Chard
September 9, 2019
Not only does it sting, it floats like a butterfly as well. Academy Award Winner Best Picture, Academy Award Winner Best Director-George Roy Hill, Academy Award Winner Best Screenplay-David S. Ward, Academy Award Winner Best Editing-William Reynolds, Academy Award Winner Best Song Score-Marvin Hamlisch, Academy Award Winner Best Art Direction/Set Decoration-Bumstead & Payne, Academy Award Winner Best Costume Design-Edith Head, Nominated for Best Actor (Redford), Best Cinematography, Best Soun…
CinemaSerf
May 27, 2023
Say what you like about the undoubted chemistry between Paul Newman ("Henry") and Robert Redford ("Johnny") this film belongs to a superb effort from the understated but hugely entertaining Robert Shaw. He's the hard-nosed gangster "Lonnegan" who gets (anonymously) fleeced by a "Johnny" who quickly decides that discretion is the better part of valour and gets out of Dodge. It's at this stage that the two grifters decide that their mark could be good for a great deal more money and so set up an e…
Filipe Manuel Neto
September 4, 2023
**It is imperative to rediscover this magnificent film.** There are many films about con artists and confidence games (Ocean’s Eleven and its two or three sequels, for example), but I had never seen one that was so good-natured and in which the main characters were so likable. It's a light, family comedy from the 70s, in which a group of tricksters decides to risk their lives to deceive a powerful and rich mobster in order to avenge a friend, killed by his hitmen. This film was, at the time, …