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DVD The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with consummate style and panache. It's an added bonus that Newman and Redford were box-office kings at the top of their game, and while Shaw broods intensely as the Runyonesque villain, The Sting is further blessed by a host of great supporting players including Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning, and Harold Gould. Thanks to the flavorful music score by Marvin Hamlisch, this was also the movie that sparked a nationwide revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime jazz, which is featured prominently on the soundtrack. One of the most entertaining movies of the early 1970s, The Sting is a welcome throwback to Hollywood's golden age of the '30s that hasn't lost any of its popular charm. --Jeff Shannon
Review(s): DVD The Sting (Universal Legacy Series)
A classic caper!
How can you go wrong with Robert Redford and Paul Newman.. the magic they spun with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was matched and exceeded with this witty, twisty tale of two grifters out to make one huge score. The story, acting and twists will keep anyone interested. The movie seems so much shorter than it's running time. The chemistry between the two superstars is the best! It's from 1972, but it is a timeless tale, and it's magic will captivate all. It's on my all time favorites list!
A Damned Good Movie
Reuniting the stars of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" Robert Redford and Paul Newman, "The Sting" went onto win 7 Oscars in 1973 including Best Picture. Watching it now, it's not hard to see why. It's really a great film.
Oscar winner Redford (Best Director, 'Ordinary People') plays Johnny Hooker, a conman who has just conned the wrongman. After he steals some money that's being delivered to another conman named Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), his friend is killed. Johnny enlists the help of expert conman Henry Gondorff (Newman), who helps Johnny plan the ultimate sting on Doyle.
The movie keeps piling on the twists up until the slightly predictable ending. But, that's OK because the film has a lot of classic scenes and is first rate entertainment. If you've seen Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, you know that Redford and Newman work well together. As Henry and Johnny, they're perfect. The suspense in this film is great, especially scenes like the poker game; The movie won 7 Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction. The Oscar that it should've won was Best Cinematography; There's some pretty innovative shots in here, as when Johnny comes to his friends apartment to find him dead. While it looks like some people on Amazon. com don't like this movie (It's got a 3 1/2 star Average Customer Review); Don't listen to them. This is high quality entertainment.
GRADE: A
Enduring fun in every respect, gets better with age...
Newman, Redford, Robert Shaw as the bad guy, twists and turns and wry humor every 20 frames or so...how can anyone not like "The Sting"? When I saw it on the big screen upon its first release, I did not think it deserved the Oscar as best film of its year, although I enjoyed it. Now, decades later, and after having seen it perhaps 20 times, at least in pieces, I think it one of the best achievements in movie-making in its century. It has STYLE, and a consistent sensibility, and logic, and on first viewing, it will keep you guessing as to who is going to come out on top. I can't imagine that anyone over 30 hasn't seen it yet, but if that's you, fix it as soon as possible. It is a primer in how to write, direct and act in a fairly long movie without ever boring the audience. Newman's drunken card-player on the train with Shaw is absolutely classic.
This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and... More Info about this DVD Director(s): George Roy Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 06 June 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, The Deer Hunter is simultaneously an audacious directorial conceit and one of the greatest films ever made about friendship and the personal impact of war. Like Apocalypse Now, it's hardly a conventional battle film--the soldier's experience was handled with greater authenticity in Platoon--but its depiction of war on an intimate scale packs a devastatingly dramatic punch. Director Michael Cimino may be manipulating our emotions with masterful skill, but he does it in a way that stirs the soul and pinches our collective nerves with graphic, high-intensity scenes of men under life-threatening duress. Although Russian-roulette gambling games were not a common occurrence during the Vietnam war,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Robert De Niro DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Ranked 34 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Films, To Kill a Mockingbird is quite simply one of the finest family-oriented dramas ever made. A beautiful and deeply affecting adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, the film retains a timeless quality that transcends its historically dated subject matter (racism in the Depression-era South) and remains powerfully resonant in present-day America with its advocacy of tolerance, justice, integrity, and loving, responsible parenthood. It's tempting to call this an important "message" movie that should be required viewing for children and adults alike, but this riveting courtroom drama is anything but stodgy or pedantic. As Atticus Finch, the small-town Alabama lawyer and widower... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Robert Mulligan DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Paul Newman gives one of the defining performances of his career, and cemented his place as a beautiful-rebel screen icon playing the stubbornly tough and independent title character in Cool Hand Luke. And before he became familiar as a sidekick in 1970s disaster movies (Earthquake and the Airport movies), George Kennedy won an Oscar for playing Dragline, the brutal chain-gang boss who tries to beat loner Luke's cool out of him. It's a classic rebel-against-the-repressive-institution story in the line of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest or The Shawshank Redemption. Certain moments have become classics--particularly the hardboiled egg-eating contest, and the immortal line (drooled by Strother Martin, as a sadistic redneck prison officer), "What we have... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Stuart Rosenberg DVD Release Date: Released the 25 June 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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