| Description | 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" - an elaborate scam - to destroy Lonnegan. He enlists the aid of "the gre... |