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ロバート・レッドフォード、ポール・ニューマンら、名俳優たちが出演した犯罪コメディ。詐欺師の3人組が騙し取った金は暗黒街の大物・ロネガンの金だった…。(amazon.co.jp)
Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director,
and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided
a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul
Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences
with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's
about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who
find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of
all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge
the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie
joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the
heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police
on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a
treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with
consummate style and panache. It's an added bonus that Newman
and Redford were box-office kings at the top of their game,
and while Shaw broods intensely as the Runyonesque villain,
The Sting is further blessed by a host of great supporting players
including Dana Elcar, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, Charles Durning,
and Harold Gould. Thanks to the flavorful music score by Marvin
Hamlisch, this was also the movie that sparked a nationwide
revival of Scott Joplin's ragtime jazz, which is featured prominently
on the soundtrack. One of the most entertaining movies of the
early 1970s, The Sting is a welcome throwback to Hollywood's
golden age of the '30s that hasn't lost any of its popular charm.
(amazon.com)
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