The Sting | Plot, Cast, Awards, & Facts
The Sting, American caper movie, released in 1973, that was one of the most popular films of the 1970s and the second on-screen pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford. It won seven Academy Awards, including that for best picture. The movie begins in Joliet, Illinois, in September 1936. Two men, Johnny Hooker (played by Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), trick a courier out of $11,000, unaware that the money was to have been given to powerful mobster Doyle Lonnegan (Robert ...
United States Henry Gondorff Newman Edith Head George Roy Hill Doyle Lonnegan Robert Shaw Johnny Hooker
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