The StingThe Sting was a 1973/1974 big caper movie based in the 1930s and centered around a convoluted plot by two professional "grifters" (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The story is based in part on a real life con game orchestrated by "Count" Victor Lustig. The film is divided into distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards. It is noted for its musical score -- particularly its theme song, "The Entertainer" -- a piano rag by Scott Joplin, which was lightly adapted for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch. A major box office success, it was the highest grossing film of 1974, taking in more than US$160 million. A belated sequel, The Sting II appeared in 1983. Primary cast:
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Bertrand). (Bandit and Justice Meet For the First Time) Academy Award for Film Editing - (William H. Reynolds). Justice (Gleason). Academy Award for Best Costume Design - (Edith Head). Along the way, Bandit picks up Carrie "Frog" (Field), and finds himself being pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Academy Award for Best Art Direction - (Henry Bumstead & James W. Payne). They were promised $80,000 from Big and Little Enos Burdett if they could make the run in 28 hours. Ward). Most of the movie centers around Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed) and Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) taking a shipment of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia (At the time Coors wasn't available in the eastern US, it was illegal to ship it east of Texas). Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay - (David S. The 3 movies introduced three generations of the Pontiac Trans Am (unlike the television movie version which the other Bandit drives the Dodge Stealth R/T Twin Turbo). Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures - (George Roy Hill). Also, a television movie was loosely based on the film called The Bandit. Academy Award for Directing - (George Roy Hill). It would inspire several other trucking films including two sequels, Smokey and the Bandit II, and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3. Academy Award for Best Picture. Smokey and the Bandit was a 1977 movie starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. Jack Kehoe : Joe Erie. Sally Kirkland : Crystal. Mann : Mr. Clemens. Larry D. Dana Elcar : FBI Agent Polk. John Heffernan : Eddie Niles. Harold Gould : Kid Twist. Eileen Brennan : Billie. Singleton. Ray Walston : J.J. William Snyder. Charles Durning : Lt. Robert Shaw : Doyle Lonnegan. Robert Redford : Johnny Hooker aka Kelly. Paul Newman : Henry Gondorff aka Shaw. |