The Sting (1973)

	Directed by: George Roy Hill	COUNTRY USA GENRE Drama/Comedy/Crime NORWEGIAN TITLE Stikket RUNNING TIME 129 minutes
	Produced by: Tony Bill Julia Phillips Michael Phillips
	Written by: David S. Ward

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Henry Gondorff	Paul Newman
Johnny Hooker	Robert Redford
Doyle Lonnegan	Robert Shaw	½
Lt. Wm. Snyder	Charles Durning	½
J. J. Singleton	Ray Walston
Billie	Eileen Brennan	½
Loretta	Dimitra Arliss	½
Kid Twist	Harold Gould
Eddie Niles	John Heffernan
Luther Coleman	Robert Earl Jones
FBI Agent Polk	Dana Elcar
Erie Kid	Jack Kehoe
Crystal	Sally Kirkland

Review

Paul Newman and Robert Redford certainly enjoyed themselves teaming up for another "crime with a smile" film, after the successful Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid four years prior. The Sting is thoroughly lightweight but also remarkably intriguing and clever, with Newman and Redford planning to swindle mobster Robert Shaw, who has killed a mutual friend of theirs. George Roy Hill's direction is shamelessly uppish and uncritical, and the film unfolds like an endless escapade of sheer and classic fun from start to finish. The film won a big handful of Oscars and (over)popularised ragtime music thanks to Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation of Scott Joplin's classics.