The Sting 1973
THE STING (1973) – AFI Movie Club Starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman in their second collaboration as co-stars for director George Roy Hill, THE STING (1973) features Academy Awar
The Sting “The Sting” is one of the most stylish movies of the year. That’s an especially pleasant surprise because it reunites the co-stars and the director of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” a movie I thought was overrated. The director isGeorge Roy Hill, and the stars ar...
Still, what prevails is the mimetic tableau and the warmer tones.Anderson’s film is also bathed in the glorious golden hues of the bygone decade.AsLicorice Pizzaprogresses (or digresses), at times I felt like it had lost me. Where was our denouement and where was this serpentine trail le...
“The Sting” cleverly clings to a few extra twists, refusing to show all the cards even when the big con needs to make sense to audiences well aware of the heisters and the marks. The plot is deliciously complex; additional mysteries hover until the very end. So too lasts the humorous,...
a little smudge. (Also entertaining?Jaws’Robert Shaw as the racketeer they hope to dupe, a killer with his own “lifeless eyes.”) Admittedly, there is a bit of an old-timey air toThe Stingthat makes it hard to take too seriously (and sadly there’s very little for any women to ...
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Donna’s preparing to storm off to London, her relationship with Curtis torn asunder. Her pointed remarks to her rival have a delightful sting: “Somebody should have told the birds and the bees about you.” I don’t know what to make of it, but there’s something in Joan Leslie’s ...
Robert Shaw's character in Jaws, a surly old seaman named Quint, provides some of the best lines in the film. Here are the best Quint Jaws quotes from the 1975 blockbuster film directed by Steven Speilberg.
THE STING (1973) – AFI Movie Club Starring Robert Redford and Paul Newman in their second collaboration as co-stars for director George Roy Hill, THE STING (1973) features Academy Awar