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
The Cisco Kid and the Lady amusing and goes down easy as a shot of tequila." Other films in which Cesar Romero played "The Cisco Kid" were: The Cisco Kid and the Lady The Cisco Kid and the Lady is a 1939 American film starring Cesar Romero as the Cisco Kid, replacing Warner Baxter, who'd won the Academy Award for the role, and is the fifth film in The Cisco Kid series. For Cesar Romero, this was the first of six Cisco Kid roles. Kid and his partner, Gordito, and another outlaw named Harbison are each bequeathed a third interest in a gold mine of a