The Sting The Sting The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book "The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man". The title phrase refers to the
Strother Martin Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing. Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (as Percy Garris, the "colorful" Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters) and Henry Hathaway's "True Grit" (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer). He frequently acted alongside L.Q. Jones, who in real life was one of his closest friends. Though he usually appeared in supporting roles, he had major