The Sting (1973) Director: George Roy Hill
“Not only are you a cheat, you’re a gutless cheat as well!”
★★★★★
After Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 Director George Roy Hill, Robert Redford, and Paul Newman teamed up again, this time for a faux 1930s gangster film about an elaborate sting operation in Chicago. They researched a variety of old Hollywood gangster films from the 1930s and developed a color scheme of muted browns for the film. The Sting is a wonderfully original movie -throughout the film the audience is giddy to watch down and out grifters become the heroes as they scam a scammer. Each ploy that unfolds in the film is delightful and in the end the audience is the true victim of “the sting” -as our expectations are subverted. The idea for the story came from David S. Ward who was inspired to research and…
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