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 ...
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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. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Add this copy of The Sting to cart. $5.00, like new condition, Sold by Fabulous Fiction Book Store rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Oxford, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1998.
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Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston. Run time: 135 mins. Originally released: 1973. Language: English. (m127) VHS movie is in excellent cond, with studio hard shell box in excellent cond; from a private collection, not an ex-video club copy.
Add this copy of Sting [Vhs] to cart. $17.66, new condition, Sold by Sheri's Book Treasures rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Soldier, IA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Movie has to be 30 years old and still makes one sit on the edge of the seat while watching! Great stars - even in the small rolls! Newman is better that GREAT and Redford fills his roll in a veteran manner! A movie that I just keep watching! BUY IT!
Jacklyn S
Oct 7, 2010
Great Deal
Great Movie and very happy with prompt response and condition.