The Sting: Movie Analysis

The movie “The Sting” is a well liked movie that was produced in 1973 by the director George Roy Hill. It’s set up in the view of 1936 Chicago which was a rough place in the Depression-era. “The Sting” stars Robert Redford, Robert Earl Jones, Robert Shaw, and Paul Newman. Newman plays a drunk by the name Henry Gondorff who has to come out of his recent habits to become the great con artists he used to be. While Redford is Johnny Hooker who is a young trickster who steals money from people during the Depression-era and has learned everything he knows from Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones).
Luther is murdered in the beginning of the movie causing Hooker to set up “The Sting” which is a huge scam on Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). To pull the