The Sting PG
...all it takes is a little confidence.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 5, 2012
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman & Robert Redford | |
Performer: | Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Harold Gould, Jack Kehoe, Robert Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Avon Long, Arch Johnson, Ed Bakey, John Quade, Larry D. Mann, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Dana Elcar, Dimitra Arliss, James Sloyan, Charles Dierkop, Brad Sullivan & Joe Tornatore | |
Directed by | George Roy Hill | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Screenwriting by | David S. Ward | |
Composition by | Marvin Hamlisch | |
Produced by | Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips & Tony Bill | |
Director of Photography: | Robert Surtees | |
Executive Production by | David Brown |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Marvin Hamlisch
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Art Direction: Henry Bumstead
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: James Payne
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Costume Design: Edith Head
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Director: George Roy Hill
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Film Editing: William H. Reynolds
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Original Screenplay: David S. Ward
Academy Awards 1973 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
The Sting remains the definitive con artist comedy: as irresistible and ingenious as the scheme that hooks in Doyle.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Extremely handsome production values and a great supporting cast round out the virtues.
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Variety
[A] Depression-era caper in which the actors played con men who attempt to relieve Robert Shaw's murderous gangster of half a million bucks via horse-racing scam.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 4/4 --
Redford and Newman provide the real sting.
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Three Movie Buffs
This is sheer entertainment, artfully made but without self conscious artiness. It is a picture put together by craftsmen who bring to it all their skills with only one purpose-entertainment.
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Cleveland Press
Newman and Redford pass a few facial expressions between them and try to cool each other out. If there ever was much of a script, it can be said to have gone to waste.
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TIME Magazine
5 stars out of 5 -- [A] masterfully smooth grift that's built on golden-age savvy but never feels like a rose-tinted throwback.
Total Film
Product Description:
Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim of one of their scams who turns out to be powerful syndicate boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Eager for revenge, Johnny takes a tip from his dying partner and seeks out mutual friend Gondorff, a consummate master of the long con. Gondorff rouses himself from his alcoholic inertia and agrees to help Johnny take down the despicable Lonnegan, conscripting an army of grifters ready to avenge their friend's death. The labyrinthine plot, which is stuffed with false leads, red herrings, and a double-cross-a-minute, involves a fake bookie joint, a very persistent FBI agent, a bunch of corrupt cops, and one shifty dame. An extremely entertaining film, the Oscar-winning film transcends the genre through the superb acting of the three leads, the keen attention to the re-creation of period detail, and a fiendishly intricate script that cons audiences completely. The wonderful score, which became immensely popular, featured Marvin Hamlisch's orchestral transcriptions of Scott Joplin's piano rags; the film led to a revival of interest in the composer. The film is one of the most entertaining films of the 1970s and lives up to its hype on repeat viewings.
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- UPC: 025192139970
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