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
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid New Haven, Connecticut. The premiere was attended by Paul Newman, his wife Joanne Woodward, Robert Redford, George Roy Hill, William Goldman, and John Foreman, among others. It premiered in Los Angeles, the next day, and in New York City on October 1. Early reviews of the film were mediocre, and New York and national reviews were "mixed to terrible" though better elsewhere, screenwriter William Goldman recalled in his book "Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade". "Time" magazine said the film's two male stars are "afflicted with cinematic schizophrenia. One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants