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
Mickey Gilbert Mickey Gilbert Mickey Gilbert is an American rodeo performer and film stunt man. Gilbert has been Robert Redford's stuntman on Redford films beginning with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969,) through "The Old Man & the Gun" (1988.) In the trailer for "The Old Man & the Gun," Redford says that he and Gilbert "were in the same class in the same high school in the San Fernando Valley, and then many, many years later, he showed up in my life again as the stunt double in "Butch Cassidy," so from that point on he's been in all my