Oct 20th
The Sting**      
(US 1973)                          
Universal/Zanuck-Brown. 129m.

Two Illinois conmen plan an elaborate scheme to swindle a Chicago gangster as revenge for the killing of their mentor.
Seriously slanted and very stylishly evoking some of the atmosphere of the period, but inherently a rather smug Hollywood entertainment, banking a lot on the re-teaming of the two stars of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(qv), here transplanting their charisma from the Wild West to 1930s Chicago in seamless fashion.

Written by: David S. Ward.
Producers: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips.
Director: George Roy Hill.
Starring: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Harold Gould, Jack Kehoe, Robert Earl Jones, Dana Elcar.
Photography: Robert Surtees.
Music: Scott Joplin (arranged by Marvin Hamlisch).
Editing: William Reynolds.
Art Direction: Henry Bumstead.
Costume: Edith Head.