The Best Picture of 1973 is…..”The Sting.” It is the story of two grifters who plan a heist on a mob boss in revenge for the murder of their friend. Some unexpected twist and turns happen when their plans go awry. Director George Roy Hill (“Hawaii” 1966) did an excellent job at the helm of this comedy-drama caper film in which he was reunited with stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford from his 1969 picture “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” This time the stars’ characters get to live to the end of the show.
Co-stars with Newman and Redford include Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana Elcar, Robert Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Les Paul, Jack Collins, and Leonard Barr (Dean Martin’s uncle). Marvin Hamlisch did a marvelous job adapting the ragtime music of Scott Joplin to the movie score. The instrumental song, “The Entertainer,” written in 1902 by Joplin, arranged by Hamlisch, was a big hit on the music charts.
“The Sting” was the second highest grossing film of the year for The Zanuck/Brown Company and Universal Pictures. It won seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Hill), Best Original Screenplay (David S. Ward), Best Costume Design (Edith Head), Best Musical Scoring (Hamlisch), Best Film Editing, and Best Art Direction.
The Sting (1973)
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My Review
The Best Picture of 1973 is…..”The Sting.” It is the story of two grifters who plan a heist on a mob boss in revenge for the murder of their friend. Some unexpected twist and turns happen when their plans go awry. Director George Roy Hill (“Hawaii” 1966) did an excellent job at the helm of this comedy-drama caper film in which he was reunited with stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford from his 1969 picture “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” This time the stars’ characters get to live to the end of the show.
Co-stars with Newman and Redford include Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana Elcar, Robert Earl Jones, Sally Kirkland, Les Paul, Jack Collins, and Leonard Barr (Dean Martin’s uncle). Marvin Hamlisch did a marvelous job adapting the ragtime music of Scott Joplin to the movie score. The instrumental song, “The Entertainer,” written in 1902 by Joplin, arranged by Hamlisch, was a big hit on the music charts.
“The Sting” was the second highest grossing film of the year for The Zanuck/Brown Company and Universal Pictures. It won seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Hill), Best Original Screenplay (David S. Ward), Best Costume Design (Edith Head), Best Musical Scoring (Hamlisch), Best Film Editing, and Best Art Direction.