The Sting (1973) - 50th Anniversary

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Fifty years ago, Paul Newman and Robert Redford reunited for The Sting! Redford plays a small-time grifter, but there’s nothing small-time about this movie. Newman and Redford orchestrate a con on cantankerous crime boss, Doyle Lonnegan, played by Robert Shaw. This story will show you a good time and pull the rug out from under your feet. Still not convinced to give it a shot? This movie won 7 Oscars! How about that? Check out these pods! The Hustler, The Color of Money, Road to Perdition Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another bald move prestige podcast today we're talking about the movie the sting it's a 1973 caper film set in 1936 around Chicago
0:10.7	It's celebrating his 50th cinematic birthday this year.
0:15.6	Depending on whether you were a critic you might have seen it in April that year.
0:21.0	The general audiences caught it around Christmas time of
0:24.1	1973 but this film turns 50 big five owes directed by George Roy Hill
0:29.8	he also directed the two stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford and Butch
0:34.4	Castine and Sundance kid. He's got a storied directorial career
0:38.9	including thoroughly modern Millie Slaughterhouse Five, the world according to
0:42.3	Garp in his last film the funny farm
0:44.9	Which is funny because that's it's a Chevy chase vehicle. That's the first George Roy Hill movie I ever saw
0:50.8	Oh wow all right I still have a lot. I still think it's so fucking funny. They're drunk
0:55.9	postal carrier, his dog just runs off. It's written by David S. who you might recognize another script he wrote
1:06.4	sleepless in Seattle. It's based on the novel The Big Con by David Marr.
1:11.6	was originally published in 1940, but it's about this Khan and these Khan men.
1:19.7	It stars Paul Newman, who again was in Butch, Butch, Kansity and Sun, The Bunch, Bunch
1:26.6	Cassidy and the Sun Bunch Kid. Cool hand Luke, The Hustler, the Color of Money, Road to Perdition. Those last three are in the Bald Move archive if you want to see what we thought of his work over the years.
1:39.0	It also stars Robert Redford. Again, he was butch or the Sundance kid. He's also in the way we were all the
1:46.6	president's men out of Africa. A river runs through it. We've got his movie, Sneakers, the best Robert Redford film in the old Bald Move Archives
1:56.2	All right Robert Shaw you will know him as Quint from Jaws the guy talking about going down the USS Indianapolis and the shark's eyes being rolled black like a doll's eyes.
2:11.0	It stars Robert Earl Jones, the Darth Vader's father.
2:16.0	Yeah, he's also.
2:18.0	Also in Witness and Trading Places, Ray Walston, you might recognize him from my favorite Martian.
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