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
Buffalo Bill, Jr. visits the town while eluding a posse led by Sheriff Pat Garrett of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory. At least two episodes, including "Runaway Renegade", focus on former members of the Jesse James gang. In "First Posse", Buffalo Bill, Jr. meets Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday as they pursue an outlaw gang in southwest Texas. Other segments introduce the outlaws Kid Curry, Johnny Ringo, Butch Cassidy, and the Wild Bunch, long before the television series "Alias Smith and Jones" and "Johnny Ringo" and the 1969 film, "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The Dell Comics' series "Buffalo Bill Jr." (given