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
Borsalino (film) sales went through the roof. Alain Delon said he wanted a title like "Vera Cruz" which did not have to be translated all around the world. The film was a large success at the French box office, breaking records throughout the country. It had admissions in France of 4 710 381. This made it the fourth most watched film of the year, after "The Gendarme Takes Off", "Atlantic Wall", and "Rider on the Rain". It was followed by "The Red Circle", "MASH", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Things of Life", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Donkey Skin"