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by George Roy Hill
USA 1973
Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill re-teamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hoping to avenge Luther's death, Johnny begins planning a "sting" -- an elaborate scam -- to destroy Lonnegan. He enlists the aid of "the greatest con artist of them all," Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), who pulls himself out of a drunken stupor and rises to the occasion. Hooker and Gondorff gather together an impressive array of con men, all of whom despise Lonnegan and wish to settle accounts on behalf of Luther. The twists and surprises that follow are too complex to relate in detail -- suffice to say that you can't cheat an honest man, and that you shouldn't accept everything at face value. The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early '70s; grossing 68.5 million dollars during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music. *** The movie has a nice, light-fingered style to it. Hill gently kids the 1930s with his slight exaggerations of fashions and styles. He tells his story episodically, breaking the movie down into the various plateaus of the con game. And he's awfully good at maintaining a kind of off-balance pacing; we can never quite pin Newman and Redford down. They're always sort of angling into scenes, making enigmatic statements under their breath and staying at least a step ahead of us. Hill's visual style is oblique; instead of stationing his actors in the frame and recording the action, he seems to sneak up on it. Newman and Redford almost seem on their way to another movie. If that sounds like a criticism, it's not meant as one: The style here is so seductive and witty it's hard to pin down. |
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Theatrical Release: December 25th, 1973
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Runtime | 2:09:12 | 2:09:08 | 2:03:54 (4% PAL speedup) | 2:09:16.874 |
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Audio | English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, DUBS: French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono | English Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital DTS, English Dolby Digital 2.0, DUBS: French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 mono |
English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, DUBS: German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, French Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 mono, Italian Dolby Digital 2. |
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1509 kbps / 24-bit) DTS Audio French 768 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit |
Subtitles | English, Spanish, none | English, Spanish, French, none | Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Portuguese, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish and none | English, Spanish, French, none |
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Release Date: August 11, 2003 Chapters 17 |
Release Information: Studio: Universal
1.85 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,888,861,943 bytesFeature: 33,924,999,168 bytesVideo Bitrate: 29.29 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • The Art of The Sting (23:15) (22:55) (10:03)• Trailer (02:13) 1• 00 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics (09:13) • 100 Years of Universal: The '70s (11:02) • 100 Years of Universal: The Lot (09:26)
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Colin Zavitz *** ADDITION: - Universal Legacy Series NTSC (2005) - There is a big difference in the color scheme of these three DVDs and although we may never know with 100% certainty which is most accurate - the new Legacy edition has the most true skin tones. Luckily this one is in its theatrical aspect ratio (1.85) and is anamorphic. We have noticed in past comparisons that full-frame and open-matte transfers always seem to be sharper than their widescreen counterparts (see Eye of the Beholder comparison HERE). I don't know why this is. Regardless, with the optional audio bumps, bonus disc of the 50 minute documentary "The Art of the Sting" - and the feature's more realistic skin tones we judge the Legacy to be the issue to own. *** Anybody got any tape? Yes even the newer Universal - Region 1 "The Sting" DVD sold HERE is the Open Matte, 1.33 - full screen version. You can see a little more cropped on the side edges of the Region 1 as well. Widescreen fans of this film in North America are not very happy. I would have bet that on the newer version Universal (R1) would have got it right. Unfortunately the PAL edition is somewhat hazier with a pinkish hue making skin tones redder. Extras are nothing to rave about but the Region 2,4 wins with an added theatrical trailer. So if you want to see this like its theatrical debut, you need to buy the Region 2,4 PAL edition. - Gary Tooze |
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