The Sting
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✎ Suggest a correctionDescribes a colossal con game staged by two grifters in 1930's Chicago. Stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
Johnny Hooker cons $11,000 in cash ($194,000 today) in a pigeon drop from an unsuspecting victim with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. The victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan. Hooker finds Henry Gondorff, a once-great con-man now hiding from the FBI, and asks for his help in taking on the dangerous crime boss. Gondsorff recruits a core team of experienced con men to dupe him. They use an elaborate obsolete scam known as "the wire" to create a phony off-track betting par
Johnny Hooker cons $11,000 in cash ($194,000 today) in a pigeon drop from an unsuspecting victim with the aid of his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie. The victim was a numbers racket courier for vicious crime boss Doyle Lonnegan. Hooker finds Henry Gondorff, a once-great con-man now hiding from the FBI, and asks for his help in taking on the dangerous crime boss. Gondsorff recruits a core team of experienced con men to dupe him. They use an elaborate obsolete scam known as "the wire" to create a phony off-track betting par
Credits
- Directed by
- George Roy Hill
- Written by
- David S. Ward
- Cast
- Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Sally Kirkland, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Kathleen Freeman, Dimitra Arliss, Dana Elcar, Ray Walston, Larry D. Mann, Brad Sullivan, Robert Earl Jones, Harold Gould, John Quade, Avon Long, Charles Dierkop, Robert Shaw, Jack Kehoe …
- Produced by
- Tony Bill, Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
- Cinematography
- Robert L. Surtees
- Music
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Edited by
- William H. Reynolds
Copyright
Registered 25Dec73 · LP43548 (Jan-Jun 1974) Copyright holder: Universal Pictures
Complete catalog record
Describes a colossal con game staged by two grifters in 1930's Chicago. Stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford.
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- A-V Online (National Information Center for Educational Media). CD-ROM database of educational and documentary media, compiled and maintained by the National Information Center for Educational Media (NICEM). — title, year, creator, length, format, sound, description
- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — color, country, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q62665 ↗
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — copyright
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