The sting
1973
Blu-ray
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.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- DTS-HD Digital surround 2.0
- wide screen
- HDTV
- video file
- Blu-ray video
- region A
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.
Other Title:
- container of (work): Sting (Motion picture)
- container of (expression): Sting (Motion picture). French.
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Special features: the art of The sting; theatrical trailer.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
- Music, Marvin Hamlisch.
- Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Eileen Brennan.
- Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
- Blu-ray disc (requires Blu-ray player for playback ; will not play on standard DVD players) ; anamorphic wide screen format (1.85:1 aspect ratio) ; DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, DTS-HD Digital surround 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in English, French, with optional subtitles in French, Spanish, captions in English.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 61202537
- 12341744
Control Number: 3084748
UPC:
- 191329100721
- 191329100721
Subjects:
- Bookmakers (Gambling) -- Drama.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Drama.
- Criminal behavior -- Drama.
- Gangsters -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.
- Male friendship -- Drama.
- Man-woman relationships -- Drama.
- Revenge -- Drama.
- Swindlers and swindling -- Drama.
Genre:
Other Authors:
- Bill, Tony, 1940- film producer.
- Brennan, Eileen, actor.
- Brown, David, 1916-2010, film producer.
- Durning, Charles, 1923-2012, actor.
- Hill, George Roy, 1921-2002, film director.
- Newman, Paul, 1925-2008, actor.
- Phillips, Julia, 1944-2002, film producer.
- Redford, Robert, actor.
- Shaw, Robert, 1927-1978, actor.
- Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), film distributor.
- Ward, David S., 1945- screenwriter.
- Zanuck, Richard D., film producer.