Genre: Comedy / Crime / Drama Director(s): George Roy Hill Release Date: 25 December 1973 Movie rating: 8.3

We know that there is a long list of reasons why Paul Newman was a very popular actor. In The Sting we have a chance to see him as Henry Gondorff. He has played a phenomenal role, and he is not the only one. Robert Redford is Johnny Hooker, and some of the notable actors are Robert Shaw as Doyle Lonnegan, Charles Durning as Lt. Wm. Snyder, Eileen Brennan as Billie... It is a 1973 movie directed by George Roy Hill and written by David S. Ward. The story is about Johnny Hooker who is a young con man, learning everything that he knows from Luther. After committing a crime, they find themselves with a lot of money. The man that they have robbed is actually a courier for a numbers runner and that is what they had no idea about. His boss is Doyle Lonigan, who thinks that this is an attack on him and that is when the story begins basically. There is a crooked cop who threatens to turn him over to Lonigan unless he pays him off. Hooker pays him off and then he tries to warn Luther, but something it is just too late. He learns what has happened to Luther and that is more than enough to him in order to take some actions...

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