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
Harvey Logan gunfighter Doc Holliday's memorial. Curry appears as a character in "Mr American" by George MacDonald Fraser. The novel, set in 1909, uses the controversy surrounding Curry's death to portray him as surviving the shootout near Parachute and later tracking the novel's protagonist, Mark Franklin, to England, where Curry attempts to kill Franklin. Phillip Pine played Kid Curry in the episode "Kid Curry" on the TV series "Tales of Wells Fargo" (1959). Ted Cassidy played Curry in the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Ben Murphy portrayed a fictionalised Kid Curry in the 1970s television show "Alias Smith and