I always recommend this movie to my guy friends saying it’s ‘the best guy movie ever made’, but don’t let that rattle you ladies, it’s a great movie for you too, for everyone in fact. So well paced, like a quick game of black jack, this movie keeps you guessing right until the very end. Paul Newman and Robert Redford are back together again (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and don’t miss a beat. It’s one of cinema’s most beloved heist movies, and for good reason. The film is so good-natured, so obviously aware of everything it’s up to I can’t help but love it more every time.
Luther said I could learn some things from you. I already know how to drink.
- Johnny Hooker
Synopsis: 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” 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.
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: David S. Ward
Cast: Paul Newman , Robert Redford
Domestic Total Gross: $156,000,000
Favorite Scene: When the film finally has you, without going into any spoilers I will say that near the end of the film you really don’t know what’s a trick anymore. You sit and wait for the hook to reveal itself.
Tags: Paul Newman, retro review, review, Robert Redford, The Sting
