The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in the 1930s, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a pair of grifters who seek revenge on a crime lord. The film features a complex plot and cleverly choreographed con games, with
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The Sting is a 1973 American caper film. Set in 1936, it involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss. The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). The screenplay by David S. Ward was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.