You have to keep this con even after you take his money. He can’t know you took him.
Hello to all of the classic people that are returning I am glad you are back. I want to welcome any new visitors. As a technical note, references and citations are listed for each show on the site at classicmovierev.com. Today on the Classic Movie Reviews Podcast, we are taking on The Sting (1973).
This movie won seven Oscars, Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, and Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation. The film was also nominated for Robert Redford as Best Actor, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound.[1]
This film is rated 8.3 on iMDB.com[2], which is pretty darn good. Rottentomatoes.com has the film at 94 percent on the Tomatometer and 95 percent audience approval[3]. So, again, not too shabby.
On December 26, 1973, New York Times film critic Vincent Canby stated:
“…(George Roy Hill) and stars (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in a comedy about a couple of exuberant confidence men operating in and around Chicago in 1936. “The Sting” looks and sounds like a musical comedy from which the songs have been removed, leaving only a background score of old-fashioned, toe-tapping piano rags that as easily evoke the pre-World War I teens as the nineteen-thirties. A lot of the other period details aren’t too firmly anchored in time, but the film is so good-natured, so obviously aware of everything it’s up to, even its own picturesque frauds, that I opt to go along with it. One forgives its unrelenting efforts to charm, if only because “The Sting” itself is a kind of con game, devoid of the poetic aspirations that weighed down “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”Mr. Newman and Mr. Redford, dressed in best, fit-to-kill, snap-brim hat, thirties [splendor], looking like a couple of guys in old Arrow shirt ads, are more or less reprising their roles in “Butch Cassidy.” Mr. Newman is Henry Gondoroff, the older con artist in charge of the instruction of Johnny Hooker (Mr. Redford), the bright, eager, younger man who yearns to make what the movie calls the Big Con (swindle), the way tap dancers in the movies about the twenties wanted to play the Palace.”[4]
The great film critic Roger Ebert also rated this movie 4 stars[6]. The film was placed on the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant.
I wanted to cover this film between the Film-Noirs that I have been covering, and the Neo-Noirs that I will start including. However, this film is in no way any type of noir. This important movie was a major hit. I feel that this film, in many ways, bridges the gap between traditional and Neo-Noir. It got the country in a mood to re-embrace criminals and rascals. The soundtrack was great as well.
Actors – The Sting (1973)
Returning
Robert Shaw is extraordinary in the role of the crabby criminal and killer Doyle Lonnegan. Shaw was first covered in the Battle of the Bulge (1965).
New
Paul Newman played veteran grifter Henry Gondorff. Newman was born in Ohio in 1925. His father was Jewish and was prosperous as a sporting goods store owner. Newman began acting in grade school and continued through high school. Newman began at Ohio University but was expelled for unruly behavior.
He began Naval pilot training but had to quit because he was colorblind. He became an aviation gunner and radio operator. He was assigned to the Pacific Theater but did not see major action[7]. Following the war, Newman completed his BA at Ohio’s Kenyon College. He then spent a year at Yale School of Drama before moving to New York. In New York, he joined the Actors Studio.
Newman made his Broadway debut in 1953. His first movie was the tights and fights epic The Silver Chalice (1954). Newman was not happy with this movie, and Indiana Jones did a better job searching for the cup of Christ.
He did much better with the boxer Rocky Graziano’s story; Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956). He continued with two Tennessee William’s films, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination and The Long, Hot Summer (1958). That same year he was the blue-eyed Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun (1958). Exodus (1960) was one of his greatest films. The following year he performed in one of his top three roles, The Hustler (1961), where he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination. For Hud (1963) and his seminal role, Cool Hand Luke (1967), he received two more Best Actor Oscar nominations.
Newman turned in great performances in Hombre (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and Sometimes a Great Notion (1971). Although I don’t care for it, the movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) has a strong cult following. He was pretty darn good in The Sting (1973) and was in one of the earlier disaster films, The Towering Inferno (1974). The hockey spoof, Slap Shot (1977), is an irreverent laugh a minute.
He received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Absence of Malice (1981) and The Verdict (1982), still without a win. He continued his role from The Hustler (1961) in The Color of Money (1986). This time, he was given the Oscar for Best Actor.
Later films include Blaze (1989), Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), Nobody’s Fool (1994), and Road to Perdition (2002). For the last two, he was again nominated for a Best Actor Oscar. Newman spent his later years as a philanthropist. He died in 2008.
Robert Redford played the apprentice grifter Johnny Hooker. Redford was born in 1936 in California. After high school, Redford attended the University of Colorado on a baseball scholarship. He lost his scholarship as a result of his drinking. After he left the university, he wandered the US and worked for a time in the oil fields of California.
When he had saved enough money, he went to Europe to study art. Upon his return, he planned to be a theatrical designer but ended up acting. He enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was in the hit ‘Barefoot in the Park,’ but he would not become a movie star until the movie was made five years later.
He has an impressive string of good movies that I will try to go through quickly. These films include Barefoot in the Park (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) great ending, Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Jeremiah Johnson (1972) tough guy, not Zach Galifianakis, The Candidate (1972), The Sting (1973) great grift, The Way We Were (1973), The Great Gatsby (1974), The Great Waldo Pepper (1975) awesome biplanes, Three Days of the Condor (1975) fantastic spy movie, All the President’s Men (1976) investigative journalism the way it should be, A Bridge Too Far (1977) amazing anti-war film, The Electric Horseman (1979) great burnt out drunken cowboy movie, Brubaker (1980), The Natural (1984) one of the best baseball movies, Out of Africa (1985), Legal Eagles (1986), Havana (1990), Sneakers (1992), Indecent Proposal (1993), and The Horse Whisperer (1998). After that, not so much.
He has done great as a director with films like Ordinary People (1980), for which he won the Best Director Oscar, very funny The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), the great A River Runs Through It (1992), and Quiz Show (1994), where he earned another Best Director Oscar nomination.
Eileen Brennan played brothel madam Billie. Brennan was born in Los Angeles in 1932[8]. Her father was a doctor, and her mother was listed as a minor silent film actor, but I cannot find her on iMDB.com. Brennan attended Georgetown University, where she was active in theater. She later attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was successful in off-Broadway plays. A talent comedian, so she sought work in very complex theater roles.
In 1967, she began working on television. He big break came when she was in The Last Picture Show (1971). Of course, Brennan was great in her relatively small role in The Sting (1973). She was in the mystery crime spoof Murder by Death (1976). Another role she was known for in the really mean drill captain in Private Benjamin (1980). Does that exist?
The movie was made into a television show by the same name that ran from 1981-1983. In the second year of the series, Brennan was hit by a car and had to send about three years rehabbing. She also became addicted to painkillers. Brennan returned to movies as ‘Mrs. Peacock’ in Clue (1985). In 1990, she suffered from breast cancer but kept working in films like Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005). She died in 2013 at the age of 80.
Robert Earl Jones played a grifter, Luther Coleman, whose murder started the action of the movie. Jones began acting in 1939. He ended his career with 29 film and television credits. Some of his better-known films are Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), The Sting (1973), Witness (1985), Sleepaway Camp (1983), and Trading Places (1983). He is the father of legendary actor James Earl Jones. Robert Earl died in 2006.
Veteran actors Charles Durning who played Lt. Wm. Snyder, My Favorite Martian Ray Walston as J.J. Singleton, and Dana Elcar, who played FBI Agent Polk, will be covered in future podcasts.
Story – The Sting (1973)
The movie credits begin with an amazing syncopated rhythm piano tune as the characters and actors are introduced. The year is 1936, and the location is Joliet, Illinois. NRA posters are in the windows, and the Great Depression is in full swing.
A man much better dressed than the rest of the locals ascends a stairway where the bookie cash is coming in and being collected. The manager of the bookie station is reporting into his head at the syndicate. The man, Mottola (James Sloyan), is given about 10 grand in an envelope to take to Chicago.
A limping black man Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is chasing another man and yelling that the man has stolen his wallet. Mottola steps out of the way. The man with the money is Erie Kid (Jack Kehoe). Crossing in the other direction, Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) tosses his suitcase, stopping the thief. Erie pulls a knife but runs away without fighting.
Mottola and Hooker run to the wounded Luther, who is on the ground bleeding from a knife cut on the leg. Hooker offers to call a cop, but Luther says no cops. He looks through his wallet, and it is loaded with cash and stuffed envelopes. Luther says he has to get the money to a local mob by 4pm. Luther offers Hooker and Mottola a C-note to make the drop. Hooker flatly refuses, but Mottola accepts.
When Mottola begins to leave with the money, Hooker stops him and tells him he needs to hide the money. He takes Luther’s money and all of Mottola’s money and wraps it in a handkerchief. He then demos to Mottola how to hide the money inside the crotch of his pants.
Luther and Hooker watch Mottola leave. He jumps into a cab and heads for the train station. He pulls the bag from his pants, and it is all cut paper. This is a variation of the gypsy switch where you place something in a handkerchief and make the switch to something of no value. This was mentioned in Nightmare Alley (1947) when Lilith gave Stan a stack of paper.
In the next scene, Luther and Hooker are showing running away from the minor sting. They find an alley and open the handkerchief; they find that they have scored $10,000. Hooker goes right away to buy a nice suit, flowers, a bottle for his girl that is working burlesque. Hooker convinces Crystal (Sally Kirkland) to skip work and go on a date with him. The couple goes to a speakeasy that has a roulette table. Hooker puts 3k on red. The pit boss signals the dealer to push a button, and Hooker is broke. Crystal heads out.
Somewhere in Chicago, a hood reports to his higher-ups that Mottola lost $11,000 to a couple of con artists. The Chicago man calls the big boss in New York. The call is filtered through a couple of henchmen, including flat-nosed Floyd (Charles Dierkop), before it is relayed to the big boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Lonnegan orders the two grifters, they haven’t connected Erie, killed by some local people.
The now broke Hooker shows up at the apartment of his partners, Luther and Erie. He is friends with Luther’s wife and family. Hooker does deliver the cuts to his partners. So, he is honest. Luther chews out Hooker for flashing money. Luther announces his retirement. Luther tells Hooker that he is so good he should connect with his old friend Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) and learn how to run the long cons.
Hooker and Erie head out. The cops cut the two grifters off. Lt. Wm. Snyder (Charles Durning) beats Hooker and tells him that he made a big score against a numbers runner and needs a friend. Snyder wants 2Gs to keep Hooker’s name away from Lonnegan. Hooker hands over $1,000. Erie wonders where Hooker got the payoff money. Hooker says he gave the cop only counterfeit money. Then he runs to call and warn Luther. No answer, so he runs to Luther’s house. Luther is dead, having been thrown from a second-story window. Hooker flees the area.
The Set-Up
Hooker travels to the windy city to find Gondorff. Billie (Eileen Brennan) tells Hooker that Gondoff is not there until he mentions Luther. Gondorff lives in a small room beside a merry-go-round. There is a brothel above. Hooker goes into the room, and Gondorff is a drunken bum. Hooker soaks him in the shower until he comes too. Gondorff says he blew a big deal and had to lay off the cons. He says the Feds are still following him. Finally, Gondorff realizes that Lonnegan may be after Hooker also.
Floyd reports to Lonnegan about Luther being killed and Hooker getting away. Lonnegan says that if the other Chicago gangsters find out he can be beaten, they will all come after him. So, Hooker must be killed.
Hooker says he wants to play the big con against Lonnegan. Gondorff wants him to slow down. He finally sees Hooker is dead serious about the con. Gondorff agrees. Luther had a lot of finds, so there will be no trouble getting the guys together for the con.
The process begins with Hooker being cleaned and clothed, so he looks big time. He gets a room. As the grifters come in, they touch the side of their nose as a signal. They meet at Gondorff’s room. Eddie Niles (John Heffernan) has joined and collects intel. Kid Twist (Harold Gould) and J.J. Singleton (Ray Walston) are there as well. Billie goes back into the brothel, and Snyder is there. He wants to search the place looking for Hooker. Billie tells him the chief of police is in the back.
J.J. says Lonnegan only plays poker while traveling by train from New York to Chicago. He also say he cheats. Gondorff proposes they use the wire con. The plan is to play Lonnegan on the train and get him to Chicago for the con.
The Hook
Eddie and Kid Twist rent an old billiards parlor for the operation. They rent the pool hall and a room with a view of the alley. They rent all of the needed equipment from Benny Garfield (Avon Long).
Gondorff and Hooker get on the same train with Lonnegan. Gondorff as ‘Shaw’ contacts the head porter about the game.
Kid Twist goes to see an old friend about getting the people to run the wire. Snyder shows up looking for Hooker. Erie is there and tries to hide his face. Snyder sees him and eventually bashes his nose onto the table.
On the train, J.J. brings in the marked decks to use against Lonnegan. Billie bumps Lonnegan and takes his wallet, which she drops off with Hooker. Hooker takes the money to Gondorff. Gondorff gargles with gin and uses it for aftershave. He cuts the bottle with water. Gondorff shows up late and acts drunk and low down. He gets under Lonnegan’s skin right away by mispronouncing his name. Floyd is sitting behind Gondorff.
Kid Twist interviews the talent. Even though Erie has a busted nose, they let him on the team. All of the gear is brought into the pool hall, and it looks like an off-track betting parlor.
The game goes into the night until it comes down to Gondorff, Lonnegan, and another man. They take a break, and Lonnegan has Floyd fix him up a winning deck. Lonnegan switches the deck into the game. Gondorff has three 3s. Lonnegan has two 9s. The other player folds. Gondorff takes two cards and now has four 3s. Lonnegan takes two and now has four 9s. They raise the bets until everything is in, including another 10k. Lonnegan lays down his four 9s. Gondorff lays down his four Jacks. He has won 15k off of Lonnegan plus the 15k they stole in the wallet.
Lonnegan doesn’t have his wallet to pay, and Gondorff accuses him of welching. Gondorff says he will send a boy around to pick up the money. As Hooker goes to get the money, Floyd can’t figure out how Gondorff cheated him. Hooker, under the name Kelly, goes in with Lonnegan. Hooker tells Lonnegan that ‘Shaw’ cheated and stole his wallet. Lonnegan wants to kill the two, but he is too close to the station. Hooker says he wants to take down ‘Shaw.’ Lonnegan takes Hooker home, and Hooker explains the entire deal. Hooker tells Lonnegan where to meet him if he wants to help take down ‘Kelly.’
When Hooker gets back to his room, two killers shoot at him, but he escapes on a street sweeper. Hooker makes it back to the operation.
The Tale
Lonnegan, Floyd, and the bodyguard go to the office that got clipped. He chews one of the hitmen for missing Hooker. He tells them to put Solino, who is their best on the job. The office head says Cole (Brad Sullivan) will try to make the hit. Lonnegan says if he does, he will tangle with Solino.
Kid Twist is in an apartment where he can watch the drug store and betting site. Hooker is in the drug store, and Gondorff is at the betting site. Lonnegan sneaks into the back way. Hooker explains that the drug store phone will call with a horse, and Lonnegan will have 2-3 minutes to place the bet at the betting site.
Kid Twist gets a call on the horse and relays it to the drug store by phone. When Lonnegan and his guys go to the betting place, it is jamming with grifters acting like betters. J.J. is reading the racing results in the back. ‘Shaw’ comes out and insults Lonnegan about not paying off on money he owes. Lonnegan puts down the bet and waits. The right horse wins, and Lonnegan thinks the scheme will work. ‘Shaw’ tells him to leave his goons at home from now own. ‘Shaw’ chews out ‘Kelly’ for effect.
Hooker comes to see Lonnegan and explains that next week they will make a $400,000 bet at 5 to 1 to hit ‘Shaw’ for two million. Lonnegan knows that they are past posting but wants to know how. Hooker says he has a friend that works at the Western Union. He holds the results until he can call Hooker, and then he releases the results. Lonnegan only gives ‘Kelly’ a thousand dollars and says he wants to meet his partner at 3pm the next day. The gloved hand of a person in a car is shown looking at Hooker, and it is probably Solino.
Hooker calls Kid Twist about needing a partner for Lonnegan to meet. As he finishes the call, Snyder bust the glass and points a gun at Hooker. Hooker slams the door on his hand and gets away by jumping off the elevated train platform. Hooker tells Gondorff about Snyder, but he keeps the secret about the assassins.
The Wire
Hooker stops by a local diner where he is severed by the indifferent and hostile Loretta (Dimitra Arliss). In another part of town, J.J and Kid Twist are dressed as painters. Hooker drops a big tip on her trying to get her attention. J.J and Kid Twist go into a Western Union office and insist that they are there to paint the boss’s office. Lonnegan and gang pickup Hooker and head for the Western Union office.
J.J and Kid Twist act like they are going to paint the room, and the boss leaves. Kid Twist takes off his coveralls and sits at the desk like it is his. He even has a picture of him and his family for the desk with actress Kathleen Freeman as the wife. Kid Twist shows Lonnegan that the office is being painted, so they leave for another location. J.J. walks out, also leaving the wall half painted. Lonnegan says after another test, he will finance the entire operation.
Snyder is in a diner when two FBI agents come and tell him that special agent Polk (Dana Elcar) would like to talk to him. They take Snyder to a warehouse where the FBI is running an operation. Polk says he knows Hooker and Gondorff are running a scam. He wants Snyder to pick up Hooker, so they won’t know the feds are involved. They tell Snyder that Hooker is going to setup Gondorff for them.
The Shut-Out
Lonnegan comes for the tip so he can place his second test bet. The scammers don’t have enough money to pay off, so they plan to use the shut-out with Lonnegan. J.J. finds the race, Billie calls it into Kid Twist who phones it to the drug store where Lonnegan is waiting. In the betting parlor, they form a line at the betting window, so Lonnegan is delayed until the race starts, and he can’t place the bet. The correct horse wins, so Lonnegan’s greed kicks in. Lonnegan says he will be back the next day with the money.
Loretta is at the diner when Hooker goes in for supper. He asks her for a date, but she refuses. Hooker sees a man outside. He asks Loretta to go to the bathroom and open the window and wait. Hooker goes out of the front and makes eye contact with the shooter. He runs back in the diner, and the gunman follows him to the bathroom. Hooker is hiding in the stall with Loretta. After the gunman leaves, Hooker runs out front and almost runs into him. Hooker flees down a blind alley and hid under a manhole cover. An unseen Solino comes and puts two bullets in the hitman.
Hooker makes it back to his apartment, but Snyder is there and gets the jump on him. They haul him to the FBI warehouse. Polk tells Hooker that they have him on counterfeiting. He has to let them know when the sting is going down, and that Hooker would walk. Hooker says it’s no deal, but they say they will convict Luther’s wife too. He is forced to go along with the betrayal of Gondorff. He says they must be allowed to take down Lonnegan first.
Hooker is acting weird around Gondorff. Hooker goes out and ends up at the diner where Loretta is working. When she closes, he follows her to her boarding house. Creeper. He invites her out on a date. She lets him in, and he stays the night. A person across the way is watching the room. That person turns the light off with a gloved hand, so it is assumed to be Solino. Billie spends the night with Gondorff, and he is worried about the sting.
The Sting
On the morning of the sting, Hooker leaves Loretta’s apartment. She is already gone bag and baggage. He has not been robbed. Gondorff tucks a gun into his tuxedo. The gloved person prepares their pistol and puts on a silencer. When they finally show him, he looks like Al Capone. The money is delivered to Lonnegan.
Hooker is on edge as he eats at the diner. Gondorff looks around as a final farewell. Hooker opens some kind of cap. Hooker calls into Polk and lets him know the scam is going down. The Al Capone looking guy watches Hooker come outside. Walking down the alley toward Hooker is the sharply dressed and calm Loretta. The Al Capone guy steps out and shoots Loretta. Hooker is stunned, but the shooter tells him that she is Solino. Damn. I didn’t see that coming the first time I watched this movie. She has a gun with a silencer on it as well. The Al Capone guy was put on the job by Gondorff.
The FBI head out for their raid. Polk tells Snyder to get the mark out quickly because he is a big shot out.
Lonnegan goes to the drug store to wait for the call. J.J. and Billie find the race and call it into Lonnegan. They say “place it on Lucky Dan in the 3rd race at Riverside Park.” Lonnegan goes to the betting parlor to make the bet. This time they let him place the bet. Lonnegan places the bet as ½ million on Lucky Dan to win at 4 to 1.
J.J. starts reading the race on the loudspeaker. Kid Twist comes in, and Lonnegan says he put the money on Lucky Dan to win. Kid Twist says no, he said to place it, or bet that the horse would come in second. Lonnegan freaks out and tries to get his money back.
Polk, Snyder, and the FBI raid the betting parlor. Polk walks over to Hooker and tells him he can go. Gondorff pulls his gun and shoots Hooker, who bleeds out of his mouth. Polk shoots Gondorff. Snyder hustles Lonnegan out. Polk tells Hooker that Lonnegan is gone, and he sits up. Gondorff is not shot either. Polk was part of the scam to take care of Snyder and get Lonnegan out without his money.
Hooker says the scam was not enough, but it was close. They begin breaking down, and the money will be split that night. Hooker doesn’t take his share because he would only blow it. He and Gonforff walk off down the alley.
I’ll be right back with conclusions and the World-Famous Short Summary following a word from our sponsors.
Summary – The Sting (1973)
This film was primarily shot on a Universal backlot[9]. The lot has a lot of connections to other films. The diner where Hooker meets Lonnegan to take the phone call is the same one that Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly first met his father in Back to the Future (1985). Hooker lost his stolen money on a roulette wheel early in the movie, and this is the same location where Rick helps the young Bulgarian couple win enough money to pay for their exit visas, stopping the bride from having to sleep with Captain Renault played by Claude Rains in Casablanca (1942).
Old-style imageboards were shown between sections of the film. This gives the feel of an older picture. For ‘The Sting’ section, there is a racehorse wearing blue and white blinders. These are the colors that the horse Secretariat wore while winning the Triple Crown in the same year as the film was made.
This was the first Best Picture Oscar for Universal Studios since All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). How are they still in business?
Dimitra Arliss played the role of Loretta/ Solino the hired killer. This was some talk about this actress, who was in Firefox (1982), not being attractive enough for Hooker/Robert Redford to be attracted to. The naysayers were overruled. I first saw this movie with my father. I mentioned to my father something about the un-attractiveness of this actress. I was told I was an idiot and didn’t know what I was looking at. She has grown on me over the years.
Very sadly, The Sting II (1983) was made later. In paired Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis as the Gondorff and Hooker. Oliver Reed was in as Lonnegan.[10] As much as I love Teri Garr, this film was one of the greatest wastes of time in my life.
World-Famous Short Summary – You can’t scam someone who is not greedy
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