The Sting

Experience the greatest films from Hollywood’s Golden Age back on the big screen, every week at The Loft Cinema!   

Winner of seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay, the highly entertaining comedy/thriller The Sting stars the dynamic duo of Paul Newman and Robert Redford (following their first pairing in the 1969 hit, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) as two charmingly amoral grifters in 1930s Chicago. After a friend is killed by the mob, they try to get even with the vicious mob boss (Robert Shaw, Jaws) responsible for the hit, by attempting to pull off the ultimate “sting.” No one is to be trusted as the twists unfold, leading up to one of the greatest double-crosses in movie history. The con is on!  Co-starring Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Eileen Brennan, and inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff, The Sting became a box-office blockbuster and a pop culture phenomenon thanks to its two high-wattage leading men, stylish 1930s art direction, and its popularization of Scott Joplin’s catchy 1902 piano rag “The Entertainer” – with Marvin Hamlisch’s jaunty adaptation racing to the top of the 1973 Billboard pop charts.  (Dir. by George Roy Hill, 1973, USA, 129 mins., Rated PG)