The Sting "making of" featurette, "The Art of the Sting", included interviews with cast and crew. The film was released on Blu-ray in 2012, as part of Universal's 100th anniversary releases. 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
Down in the Valley (film) say about him. She replies, "Don't say anything, just think it," and scatters the ashes. Writer David Jacobson was inspired to write this film by his childhood in the San Fernando Valley. He commented that there was never much to do except throw things onto the highway (which possibly inspired a deleted scene from the film titled "Don't Look"), have dirt clod fights, and spending many hot summer days at the local cinema with friends, watching the same films over and over. One favorite was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", which he watched seventeen times. Jacobson also has noted