Project Author: David Mills
June 23, 2025
PRODUCTION COMPANIES:
Universal Pictures, The Zanuck/Brown Company, David Brown Productions
The Sting
...all it takes is a little confidence.
Genre:
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Runtime:
129
Released:
1973
Rating:
8.025
Budget:
Box Office:
WRITERS
David S. Ward
FILM OVERVIEW
The Sting
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
DIRECTOR
George Roy Hill
GALLERY
PRODUCTION TEAM
William Reynolds (Editor)
Edith Head (Costume Design)
George Roy Hill (Director)
Robert Surtees (Director of Photography)
Tony Bill (Producer)
Julia Phillips (Producer)
Michael Phillips (Producer)
Charlsie Bryant (Script Supervisor)
Ernest B. Wehmeyer (Production Manager)
David Brown (Executive Producer)
CAST MEMBERS
Paul Newman
Robert Redford
Robert Shaw
Charles Durning
Ray Walston
Eileen Brennan
Harold Gould
John Heffernan
Dana Elcar
Jack Kehoe
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Henry Bumstead (Art Direction), Gary Liddiard (Makeup Artist), Richard D. Zanuck (Executive Producer), Dennis C. Salcedo (Sound), Albert Whitlock (Visual Effects), Robert J. LaSanka (Casting), Rick Sharp (Makeup Artist), Steven Burnett (Stunts), Dean Smith (Stunts), Mickey Gilbert (Stunts), Eileen Peterson (Unit Publicist), Jim Gillespie (Makeup Artist), James W. Payne (Set Decoration), Connie Nichols (Hairstylist), Andrea E. Weaver (Set Costumer), Ronald Pierce (Sound), John Moio (Stunts), Bob Warner (Special Effects), Charles W. Short (Camera Operator), Mark Reedall (Makeup Artist), Peter V. Saldutti (Set Costumer), Bernie Pollack (Set Costumer), William Batliner (Casting), Billy Byers (Music), Marvin Hamlisch (Music), Marvin Hamlisch (Original Music Composer), Jaroslav Gebr (Title Illustration), Charles Dismukes (Second Assistant Director), Marvin Hamlisch (Music Arranger), Scott Joplin (Music), David S. Ward (Writer), Robert Crawford Jr. (Associate Producer), Robert Bertrand (Sound), Ray Gosnell Jr. (First Assistant Director), John Scarne (Technical Advisor), Julius Rosenkrantz (Property Master)
MORE CAST
Dimitra Arliss, Robert Earl Jones, James Sloyan, Charles Dierkop, Lee Paul, Sally Kirkland, Avon Long, Arch Johnson, Ed Bakey, Brad Sullivan, John Quade, Larry D. Mann, Leonard Barr, Paulene Myers, Joe Tornatore, Jack Collins, Tom Spratley, Kenneth O’Brien, Ken Sansom, Ta-Tanisha, William Benedict, Robert Brubaker, Kathleen Freeman, Susan French, Bruce Kimball, Alexander Lockwood, Chuck Morrell, Byron Morrow, Pearl Shear, Arthur Tovey, Guy Way, Jim Michael
