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
Gunmen of the Apocalypse Laredo a Wild West reenactment town in Kent. The title is a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The plot of a drunken sheriff defending his town against an incoming gang of cowboys parodies "Rio Bravo". The artificial reality and wild west plot also shows similarities to the "" episode "Spectre of the Gun", and to the ""'s episode "A Fistful of Datas". The episode also has references to the 1971 film "Gumshoe", which the AR game of the same name is based on, and "Butch Accountant and the Yuppie Kid" references the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and