wow! i kept looking at him trying to decide if he was a young James Earl Jones. I actually could tell he wasn't, but on the same token I still kept wondering. makes sense now. thx for that
JEN: You asked a couple of times in your The Sting reaction video, "How do you cheat in poker?" I was a professional card dealer for over 30 years. The answers are, to have a dealer be well-trained in manipulating the cards and setting up a deck to deal the winning & losing hands according to who the dealer wants to cheat or to mark the cards with a die that can be seen with tinted glasses or contacts so the cheating player wearing the tinted lenses can see what cards the player being cheated is holding & know what they are according to where the die is placed on the cards, or as in The Sting, the cheating player (Paul Newman) has his own cards that he switches with slight of hand skills or other ways of cheating I won't mention for the sake of brevity.
One of the great things about this movie is how many little details you only notice on rewatches, since the movie is constantly "conning" the audience as well as the characters. Like when "Mrs. Hillard" sticks her head out the door while Hooker is talking to Salino in the hallway, at first we think it's just a joke about the lack of privacy. Only later finding out that small moment actually saved Hooker's life, and he had no idea how close he was to being dead that night if she hadn't seen his face. And Salino, totally professional, plays it cool. "Good night, Mrs. Hillard," with just a hint of annoyance that her opportunity's been blown and now she needs to wait until morning to kill him outside.
The decision to name the assassin "Salino" is genius because it throws the audience off the scent entirely. Because of that "o", everyone assumes Salino must be a male and forgets that it's a surname, so it really could be anyone. It's an arrogant attitude, that assumption that we know what's going on, and nothing makes a con man happier than arrogance. It's their ticket to the mark's wallet every time.
Charles Durning, who plays Snyder, was a wonderful actor. He was nominated for a beautifully portrayed guest part on NCIS, playing a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who suffers from delayed PTSD. Durning himself was a WWII vet who fought on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge.
@@matthewdunham1689 I showed it to my father, who is a history buff who rarely watches scripted tv, and he was weeping at the end-he doesn’t cry watching ANYTHING!
Congratulations for finally discovering the finest heist/con movie ever made! More Robert Redford? There's so much. My recommendation is Three Days of the Condor, a thriller.
Three Days of the Condor isn't bad, but (Sorry for being that guy) it's too compressed from the book, Six days of the Condor. I get that changes have to be made for cinema, but they shaved and switched too much. If I hadn't read Six Days first I'd probably like the movie more. If you enjoy movies like that, and can deal with everything being more drawn out, I recommend Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and its sequel Smiley's People. They were originally for the BBC and aired in America on PBS.
Jen, there's a bunch of good Redford films, including: * Three Days of the Condor (1975) -- spy drama * All the President's Men (1976) -- drama about Watergate (co-starring Dustin Hoffman) * The Natural (1984) -- baseball film All are very good... but I'd say "President's Men" is the very best. Enjoy!
Because this movie followed so closely after Butch Cassidy, with that ending still fresh in everyone's mind, and the teamwork between the two being suggested as a rehash, everyone was fully expecting the end of the Sting to be the same as Butch Cassidy. They really set us up for the surprise.
This is my favourite movie and watching this reaction was the first time I realised that the ending of Butch and Sundance meant that audiences probably would believe that they could both die at the end. 🤯
Jen, 11k in 1936 is equal (in terms of spending power) to about 235k today. Edit/Addition: Cool Hand Luke is a definite yes. Also Jen, there are 2 movies I would recommend if you want more Paul Newman. Paul plays the same character in both, but the movies were done years apart. As a young actor Paul starred with Jackie Gleason in The Hustler. Jackie plays the real life legend Minnesots Fats and Paul plays a young pool hustler named Fast Eddie Felson. They end up in the same pool room one night and that's all I will tell you. Years later Paul reprised Fast Eddie as an older guy who has been out of the game for some time, and he meets a brash young pool hustler played by Tom Cruise. The movie is the color of money. Both really strong films. Hope you give them a try and enjoy them.
Yes, the Scott Joplin music in the background is called "Ragtime". Joplin was the most famous and popular composer of ragtime, and history had forgotten him until this movie's soundtrack became a hit seller in '73. If the style sounds familiar, Randy Newman also gave us a ragtime score for 1981's "Ragtime": ua-cam.com/video/dTt7RL0PLbA/v-deo.html
Hi, Jen. 2 fun facts: 1) Redford admitted that because he worked on film after film after film, he never saw THE STING (1973) until he rented it in 2004! 2) Robert Shaw wore a knee brace and wasn't acting when he was seen limping. He got hurt during production in a racquetball game. He apologized to director George Roy Hill who incorporated it into the Doyle Lonegan character as filming began. You stay classy, Jen.
Wonderful film! Another movie from this period where Robert Redford looks great (perhaps even more so than here) is the "The Way We Were" co-starring Barbra Streisand. Like this it was a huge hit when it came out and Barbra was Oscar nominated. Despite her presence and the fact that the title song won the Oscar as well as being a number one hit for Babs the film isn't a musical but a bittersweet romance with a really fantastic look.
21:51 - There is actually an entire branch of security that does exactly this. I've done some work over the years on defending places against intrusions, but you would be surprised how far you can get with a clipboard, Otis Elevator jacket, and toolbox; or the classic is to go order a fireman's jacket online as very few people question letting the Fire Marshall in to "do a fire inspection". A lot of women actually can get very far in this field to by leveraging stereotypes by pretending they are the disorganized secretary or personal assistant. One of my colleagues has gotten keycards to hotel rooms, appointment/travel schedules, security pin codes, copies of confidential records, etc that way (people just have a tendency to want to help the 'nice assistant' with the 'mean boss').
If you want to check out another good Paul Newman film, I would recommend "Slap Shot" from 1977. He plays a player/coach of a struggling minor league hockey team who tries to use desperate tactics in order to keep the team alive. Some of it ends up with hilarious results.
Pretty much a local legend for me. The film was shot in my hometown, so it’s fun to watch for even different reasons than the story and the performances of the actors. I was in the crowd for the hockey scenes in the arena. “All The Right Moves” was also filmed in Johnstown, staring Tom Cruise, Leah Thompson, and Craig T. Nelson about a high school football player hoping for a scholarship so he can escape the life in a steel mill town. ✌🏼😎
@@randyhochstein8455 I remember seeing All the Right Moves a while back when I stumbled across it on TV once. It wasn't too bad for the time. Maybe I should try and find it again.
The music is ragtime, specifically Scott Joplin, and was at least a decade past its heyday at the time this story takes place. Even so it was perfect for the film and sparked a renewed interest in that genre of music. As for it "not being a Butch Cassidy ending", the producers were mindful of that as well. Accordingly the last line of one of the trailers was "this time they just might make it".
Phew! I'm glad you watched it ALL THE WAY to the end, Jen. I was afraid that you were going to have such flashbacks to Butch and Sundance that you would turn it off in protest before you saw the final reveal. 🤗 But you stuck with it to create another great reaction, Jenny Penny. ❤👍🙂
Hi, Jen. With this classic about to mark its 50th anniversary, there are only about a half dozen Imdb credited cast members aside from Robert Redford who are still with us today. Among them are James Sloyan who got conned as the numbers runner Mottola soon after the film's start. Charles Dierkop and his "punchable face" played Lonnegan's lead bodyguard Floyd. Sally Kirkland played Hooker's stripper girlfriend Crystal. Joe Tornatore played the black gloved hit man. When Dimitra Arliss died ¹ this month in 2012 it made the national news here in the USA. She was Loretta Salino and the news flash was "The HIT GIRL from THE STING has died". Since you're among those who think Robert Redford is like an older Brad Pitt, you should check out Pitt in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (1992) which was directed by Redford and he narrates in the soundtrack. Their also is SPY GAME (2001) in which you can see Pitt and Redford on screen together. It gives "Bromance" a whole new meaning. You stay classy, Jen.
Every time I watch this movie, I want ice cream. Recently, I heard an ice cream truck outside. The tune playing was "The Entertainer". I started toward the door, only to realize that I'm too old to chase after the ice cream truck.
Three Days of the Condor Is Redford at his best it is a thriller and you will love it. It has a Winter Soldier Feel to it. Jen you need this movie in your life it is amazing
Couldn't agree more. A different sort of Robert Redford movie that I'd recommend is The Candidate. And perhaps my favorite Paul Newman performance is in The Verdict; I'd also strongly recommend seeing him in Harper, an adaptation of The Moving Target, the first novel in the Lew Archer detective series by Ross Macdonald, and remarkably faithful to the book except for inexplicably changing the hero's last name to Harper.
Shaw's limp was real. A week before filming began, he tore the ligaments in his knee while playing handball. The loose-fitting suits popular in the 1930's helped Shaw hide the knee brace he had to wear.
3:15 the comedian at the burlesque club is played by Leonard Barr. 2 years earlier he had a role in Diamonds Are Forever as Shady Tree, the Las Vegas comedian involved (fatally) in Blofeld's diamond smuggling ring.
Enjoyed your reaction to this excellent movie. One of my all-time favorite Robert Redford movies is "Jeremiah Johnson". I really think you would find him crush worthy in this one too.
This is such an amazing film. This is the perfect type of film for you to react to. You should check out Sneakers. Not a perfect film like this one, but it's a lot of fun.
Director George Roy Hill teamed up with Paul Newman one more time for one of the funniest, most underrated movies ever = Slap Shot from 1976. I highly recommend reacting to it: you might be the first! Great reaction!
I'll toss my vote in for Slap Shot, especially if you are a fan of Paul Newman. It holds up today, but it is definitely a movie of its time. Post-Watergate, poor economy, can't trust "the man," and so on. And yet it happens to be hilarious.
This movie got me 'into' Ragtime, which later got me into New Orleans Jazz, *big-time!* That - as well as it being a really interesting and complex story - has made this a big favorite of mine! So cool to see a reaction (and a good one!) to it! Thanks!
Since you mentioned Redford and Brad Pitt, you might check out the 2001 film Spy Game, which starred both of them. For Paul Newman, check out Slap Shot (a comedy) and Road to Perdition (not a comedy, starring Tom Hanks). Robert Shaw was good in Black Sunday and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974, (the original, not the remake in 2009)
The year before this film, 1972, Robert Redford starred in an amusing heist movie titled "The Hot Rock", it's not "The Sting", but it's a fun watch. That same year he also played a mid 1800s mountain man in "Jeremiah Johnson", a very beautiful film.
I loved Jeremiah Johnson when it came out. I saw it 5 times in a row in our military movie theater while stationed in Germany back in 1973-1976. I smuggled my camera in and caught him raising the Hawken rifle from the hip and firing it , taking out a Crow Indian. Developed the picture myself in the Black room in our Rec Building. This movie is actually based on a real Johnson who live as a trapper like and where the movie portrayed. easy to find on Google I too watch it without fail the few times it's on TV.
0:36 Yes that's Quint himself! When I watch this movie I can't help but think of Quint. Robert Shaw is so excellent in this. This is another one of my favorite movies of his.
Cool. Great Reaction. Love this movie and really enjoyed how on the edge you were at the end, not knowing for sure that Newman & Redford were dead. Priceless. :) As for other movies, For Newman I would say Cool Hand Luke (67), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (58) and the Verdict (82); Redford in Three Days of the Condor (75), the Natural (84) and Sneakers (92); and for Shaw in the Taking of Pelham One Two Three (74), Robin & Marion (76) and Black Sunday (77)
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Great reaction Jen. You definitely want to do Cool Hand Luke but I also highly recommend the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor with Redford and Faye Dunaway and Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist). Nobody has reacted to this great film.
Yeah I always loved that movie. It's so underrated. Faye Dunaway was in so many legendary films: Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Network, Barfly, Little Big Man, The Champ, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Three Musketeers (the really great 1970s version not the brat pack remake).
They're playing Mahjong which was a big deal in the 30s. It's a fun game. "The Sting" is one of those films with the perfect cast. It always amuses me that Gondorf calls himself Robert Shaw which is the name of the actor playing Lonnegan.
Two, probably underrated Newman movies that I love are Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975). "Gumshoe" detective stories featuring Newman as Lew Harper in both.
If Paul Newman is "one of your all-time crushes," as you say, have you ever checked out "The Road to Perdition," from 2002? It was Newman's last screen role, in a truly great film that somehow, inexplicably, fell through the cracks and got missed by a lot of people, despite having a loaded cast with Newman, Tom Hanks, Jude Law and Daniel Craig and being directed by the great Sam Mendes. It's a brilliant film and I'm constantly surprised at how many people missed it.
So glad to see you react to this Jen! Check this out - the burlesque theater when Redford picks up his girl at the end, is actually the opera house set from the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, and until it was demolished in 2014, was the oldest standing set in the world!
For Paul Newman I like to recommend the Towering Inferno Co Starring Steve Mc Queen and William Holden and for Robert Shaw I recommend Force 10 From Navarone Co staring Harrison Ford
The ragtime music is out of place for the time the story takes place in the 1930's. However it was because of the movie and it;s music that ragtime was revived. The Entertainer, the song you hear at the beginning, became at hit instrumental. Soon everyone who played piano bought the sheet music and had t learn to play it...even me, lol. My peers kept asking me to play it.From Wikipedia: "Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached No. 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart in 1974.[2] The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time." unfortunately several generations now think it's called "The Ice Cream Truck song" 😂
I love how Lonigan thinks Shaw and Kelly are dead, while Snider thinks Gondorf and Hooker are dead. PERFECT! I totally thought the Feds were real the first time I saw this - yeah, WE got stung! Love this flick!
This is the kind of movie that makes you wonder why every movie doesn't have a great script and amazing actors in every role. Well, it really is hard to make good ones.
One of the greats! Excellent stuff Jen. Please put SPY GAME (2001) on your list - it has an older Robert Redford (still handsome and charming) and his lookalike Brad Pitt! It has twists and romance and intrigue, and is somewhat underseen/underrated imo - definitely up your street I think.
Directed by the late great Tony Scott who gave us Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire and The Hunger! His brother Ridley gets all the praise, but Tony was no slouch!!
At the 1974 Academy Awards show, Elizabeth Taylor was the presenter for Best Picture of 1973. When she opened the envelope, she giggled and said "I am so glad. The winner is The Sting." Then she giggled again. I think she like it.
“The Way We Were “ Movie with “Robert Redford” and Barbra Streisand .. Good movie and “Robert “is gorgeous in it!! You’ll enjoy it and enjoy looking at your new crush Robert Redford!!
I second that recommendation, HIGHLY. “The Way We Were” is one of cinema’s great love stories and Redford and Streisand are both so great (and gorgeous) in it. It came out the same year as “The Sting.” It was a very big year for Redford.
$11,000 then is roughly worth in the area of $230,000 now. Redford's character bet the 2023 equivalent of about $65,000. Lonigan's $500,000 is the current equivalent of $10.5 million.
If you really want to get your Paul Newman fix I recommend watching Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Both Newman and Elizabeth Taylor are absolutely stunningly beautiful in it.
Some of my other fav's of Robert Redford (besides this movie): Barefoot In The Park (comedy), Three Days Of The Condor (action) and The Way We Were (romance) :)
Excellent choices and co-starring three of my favorite leading ladies... Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway and Barbra Streisand respectively. All were excellent in those rolls and really shine in these classic films -- Klute, Bonnie & Clyde and A Star is Born -- (again) respectively.
Ragtime is exactly correct. This is one of the three best movies ever made. Cool Hand Luke is the Single best movie ever made. One common factor Paul Newman As for your question of 10 grand in 1933 would be $228,305.38 in 2023 In this movie almost every actor was an A or B list actor. Basically if they had a speaking part they were well known.
@Tom Marks @Richard Russell I used to ride the subway every day. That movie hit close to home for NYC commuters. I would get strange looks when people noticed I was reading the novel. Oh, I just remembered that my friend's mom played one of the hostages... :D
Hi Jen, Robert Redford loved to play characters that have a dark side to them. But what you said about Redford and Pitt. You must see "A River Runs Through It" with Brad Pitt, directed by Robert Redford. I'm sure Redford would have played the Pitt's part if he had been younger. When you see it you'll understand why I said that. Aside from all that its a really beautiful film. Greetings and love from Western Australia. PS. The Sting is film greatness.
I can heartily recommend the book that inspired the movie, too: The Big Con by David Maurer. It's basically a guide to how this kind of operation was run. For reference, a 'small' or 'short' con was something quick and dirty like the handkerchief swap at the beginning, whereas a 'Big' con is something where your mark will give you every penny in his pocket, then go to the bank tomorrow morning, empty out his account to hand that over and still wish they had more even after you've left town. Much more complex (as you see here) but much more rewarding with it.
Loved this film! Another favourite Redford film of mine is "Sneakers" where the cast also includes Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Ben Kingsley & Mary McDonnell. It has everything from suspense, humour, intrigue...you name it. It's really worth a watch Jen! Cheers from Peterborough
'The Way We Were' with Barbara Streisand is a movie often suggested when people put forward the hansom Robert Redford. You might check it out. However, I love 'The Sting!' It's #25 in my top 250. And, I had a very, very good time in your great react. Thank You very much!
My family and I were in a movie theater near Franklin, Pa. when this movie first came out. This was before the members of the audience knew the twist ending. I and my family liked to stay until the actual end of a movie, but a lot of people in the audience got up and started to leave when Paul Newman and Robert Redford's characters got shot. They ended up running back into the theater. It was so hilarious. Thanks for the fun reaction to a great film.
Newman: Cool Hand Luke, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean Redford: All The President's Men, 3 Days of The Condor, Spy Game, The Natural, The last Castle
$400,000 in 1938 would equivalent to about $8.5 million today. This is one of my top 3 favorite movies. I'm so glad I came across your channel today! Paul & Robert have been my crushes for 40 years! What a great reaction to a great movie!
Harold Gould (Twist) starred in a sting TV series. (from Wikipedia) Toni "Feather" Danton is a beautiful and clever young attorney. Her father, Harry Danton, is a shrewd and skillful confidence man. To keep Harry out of trouble, Feather hires him as an investigator for her law firm. Feather and Harry work together to help their friends and Feather's clients by bringing criminals to justice. Feather uses legal means, while Harry uses his underworld connections and extensive knowledge of scams and stings to help her with her cases. Harry assembles a gang of bunco artists-the "Feather and Father Gang"-who use disguises and elaborate ruses to trick the murderers and swindlers who victimize Feather's friends and clients into incriminating themselves.
The Hustler [young Paul Newman] followed by The Color of Money [perfectly aged Paul Newman] The Hustler is a really good movie with great dialog. [I think it was award winning] The color of Money is like the sequel only 30 years later. Really, you got to watch them back-to-back and then the question is: Which Paul Newman is More Handsom?? Young brash full of vinegar? or older wiser mature? You need to make that call! Which is it? Anyway, I do hope you get a chance to watch them both. I'm thinking you will certainly like them! and HIM in them!
Yes, I’ve seen this a few times. I listened close this time. Careful wording there. Technically should have been Lucky Dan to place, they knew he would assume to win.
Comment COOL ✋ if you want to see Cool Hand Luke!
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid: ua-cam.com/video/RfwmUCWqff8/v-deo.html
Cool Hand Luke was good, you should check it out. Slapshot (1977) is pretty good too, I just finished watching it for the third time.
A masterpiece and you’ll adore it 😊
Oh yes! Gotta see Cool Hand Luke! Otherwise, there’s a failure to communicate!
COOL 🖐for Paul Newman, and may I also Recommend "Sneakers" ('92), it's My Favorite film with Robert Redford!
COOL ✋ !
The guy who played Luther, the one who is Robert Redford's friend, is the real-life father of James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader
wow! i kept looking at him trying to decide if he was a young James Earl Jones. I actually could tell he wasn't, but on the same token I still kept wondering. makes sense now. thx for that
wow! 53 yrs old here, never knew that, thanks.
@@spartanical Young JEJ in Dr Strangelove
I looked him up when I first saw the movie because his voice is so distinctively like his son's...so cool :)
He was also in the 80s slasher Sleepaway Camp.
He plays the assistant cook of the paedophile head cook.
400,000 in 1936 is worth 8,541,000 in today’s money. Excellent reaction, loved this in the theater at 12.
JEN: You asked a couple of times in your The Sting reaction video, "How do you cheat in poker?" I was a professional card dealer for over 30 years. The answers are, to have a dealer be well-trained in manipulating the cards and setting up a deck to deal the winning & losing hands according to who the dealer wants to cheat or to mark the cards with a die that can be seen with tinted glasses or contacts so the cheating player wearing the tinted lenses can see what cards the player being cheated is holding & know what they are according to where the die is placed on the cards, or as in The Sting, the cheating player (Paul Newman) has his own cards that he switches with slight of hand skills or other ways of cheating I won't mention for the sake of brevity.
$11,000 in 1936 is worth $234,875 today, $500,000 in 1936 is worth $10.6 million today
One of the great things about this movie is how many little details you only notice on rewatches, since the movie is constantly "conning" the audience as well as the characters. Like when "Mrs. Hillard" sticks her head out the door while Hooker is talking to Salino in the hallway, at first we think it's just a joke about the lack of privacy. Only later finding out that small moment actually saved Hooker's life, and he had no idea how close he was to being dead that night if she hadn't seen his face. And Salino, totally professional, plays it cool. "Good night, Mrs. Hillard," with just a hint of annoyance that her opportunity's been blown and now she needs to wait until morning to kill him outside.
The decision to name the assassin "Salino" is genius because it throws the audience off the scent entirely. Because of that "o", everyone assumes Salino must be a male and forgets that it's a surname, so it really could be anyone. It's an arrogant attitude, that assumption that we know what's going on, and nothing makes a con man happier than arrogance. It's their ticket to the mark's wallet every time.
I have watched this movie so many times and I never picked up on that part of the story with Mrs. Hillard. Thanks!
Charles Durning, who plays Snyder, was a wonderful actor. He was nominated for a beautifully portrayed guest part on NCIS, playing a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who suffers from delayed PTSD. Durning himself was a WWII vet who fought on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge.
...which makes it all the more amusing with his performance as a Nazi officer in 'To Be or Not to Be' ;)
Excellent episode!!
@@matthewdunham1689 I showed it to my father, who is a history buff who rarely watches scripted tv, and he was weeping at the end-he doesn’t cry watching ANYTHING!
@@kathyastrom1315 awesome ❤
@Kathy Astrom what was the ending? "You weren't really at Iwo, were you?"No, Guadalcanal" CLASSIC
Congratulations for finally discovering the finest heist/con movie ever made! More Robert Redford? There's so much. My recommendation is Three Days of the Condor, a thriller.
My favorite Redford is The Natural...I think Jen would love it.
@@flarrfan Jeremiah Johnson, a gem.
Agree. An excellent and often overlooked movie with an "older" Redford is "Sneakers".
I always preferred THE PARALLAX VIEW to THREE DAYS.
Three Days of the Condor isn't bad, but (Sorry for being that guy) it's too compressed from the book, Six days of the Condor. I get that changes have to be made for cinema, but they shaved and switched too much.
If I hadn't read Six Days first I'd probably like the movie more.
If you enjoy movies like that, and can deal with everything being more drawn out, I recommend Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and its sequel Smiley's People. They were originally for the BBC and aired in America on PBS.
Jen, there's a bunch of good Redford films, including:
* Three Days of the Condor (1975) -- spy drama
* All the President's Men (1976) -- drama about Watergate (co-starring Dustin Hoffman)
* The Natural (1984) -- baseball film
All are very good... but I'd say "President's Men" is the very best.
Enjoy!
Also Barefoot in the Park (1967) Rom-Com with Jane Fonda
All The Presidents Men And Three Days of the Condor are truly great movies. A couple of my favorites
Yes, Jeremiah Johnson!
When Robert Redford and Paul Newman begin walking away and the Entertainer starts playing…. Iconic
Because this movie followed so closely after Butch Cassidy, with that ending still fresh in everyone's mind, and the teamwork between the two being suggested as a rehash, everyone was fully expecting the end of the Sting to be the same as Butch Cassidy. They really set us up for the surprise.
This is my favourite movie and watching this reaction was the first time I realised that the ending of Butch and Sundance meant that audiences probably would believe that they could both die at the end. 🤯
That's what I was thinking 🤔
That's great they even have a scene set up with a death fake out as part of the con to bait and switch audiences back in '73.
Jen, 11k in 1936 is equal (in terms of spending power) to about 235k today. Edit/Addition: Cool Hand Luke is a definite yes. Also Jen, there are 2 movies I would recommend if you want more Paul Newman. Paul plays the same character in both, but the movies were done years apart. As a young actor Paul starred with Jackie Gleason in The Hustler. Jackie plays the real life legend Minnesots Fats and Paul plays a young pool hustler named Fast Eddie Felson. They end up in the same pool room one night and that's all I will tell you. Years later Paul reprised Fast Eddie as an older guy who has been out of the game for some time, and he meets a brash young pool hustler played by Tom Cruise. The movie is the color of money. Both really strong films. Hope you give them a try and enjoy them.
If you like Redford on screen, you'll enjoy him in The Natural.
Yes, the Scott Joplin music in the background is called "Ragtime". Joplin was the most famous and popular composer of ragtime, and history had forgotten him until this movie's soundtrack became a hit seller in '73.
If the style sounds familiar, Randy Newman also gave us a ragtime score for 1981's "Ragtime": ua-cam.com/video/dTt7RL0PLbA/v-deo.html
The small black man who supplied the hall was played by Avon Long, who portrayed Sportin' Life in the Broadway "Porgy and Bess."
This is a great movie! Thank you for watching it! Yes! Watch Cool Hand Luke!
Had a blast with this one ☺️👍
Hi, Jen. 2 fun facts: 1) Redford admitted that because he worked on film after film after film, he never saw THE STING (1973) until he rented it in 2004! 2) Robert Shaw wore a knee brace and wasn't acting when he was seen limping. He got hurt during production in a racquetball game. He apologized to director George Roy Hill who incorporated it into the Doyle Lonegan character as filming began. You stay classy, Jen.
Robert Redford in "Jerimiah Johnson" or in "Three Days of the Condor".
Two of his best that are very underrated and few if any have reacted to.
And "Sneakers".
If you want more Paul.Newman...Thr Verdict is a spectacular film.
Won Best Picture Oscar and Paul won Best Actor Oscar (finally).
Wonderful film! Another movie from this period where Robert Redford looks great (perhaps even more so than here) is the "The Way We Were" co-starring Barbra Streisand. Like this it was a huge hit when it came out and Barbra was Oscar nominated. Despite her presence and the fact that the title song won the Oscar as well as being a number one hit for Babs the film isn't a musical but a bittersweet romance with a really fantastic look.
The Way We Were is a great movie! My mom made one of the dresses that Vivica Lindfors wore in it.
Great movie!!
21:51 - There is actually an entire branch of security that does exactly this. I've done some work over the years on defending places against intrusions, but you would be surprised how far you can get with a clipboard, Otis Elevator jacket, and toolbox; or the classic is to go order a fireman's jacket online as very few people question letting the Fire Marshall in to "do a fire inspection". A lot of women actually can get very far in this field to by leveraging stereotypes by pretending they are the disorganized secretary or personal assistant. One of my colleagues has gotten keycards to hotel rooms, appointment/travel schedules, security pin codes, copies of confidential records, etc that way (people just have a tendency to want to help the 'nice assistant' with the 'mean boss').
If you want to check out another good Paul Newman film, I would recommend "Slap Shot" from 1977. He plays a player/coach of a struggling minor league hockey team who tries to use desperate tactics in order to keep the team alive. Some of it ends up with hilarious results.
Hilarious movie .
Pretty much a local legend for me. The film was shot in my hometown, so it’s fun to watch for even different reasons than the story and the performances of the actors. I was in the crowd for the hockey scenes in the arena.
“All The Right Moves” was also filmed in Johnstown, staring Tom Cruise, Leah Thompson, and Craig T. Nelson about a high school football player hoping for a scholarship so he can escape the life in a steel mill town.
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@@randyhochstein8455 I remember seeing All the Right Moves a while back when I stumbled across it on TV once. It wasn't too bad for the time. Maybe I should try and find it again.
Is Color of Money a Newman movie?
@cindyknudson2715 Yes it is. He won an Oscar for it.
The music is ragtime, specifically Scott Joplin, and was at least a decade past its heyday at the time this story takes place. Even so it was perfect for the film and sparked a renewed interest in that genre of music. As for it "not being a Butch Cassidy ending", the producers were mindful of that as well. Accordingly the last line of one of the trailers was "this time they just might make it".
The card game scene on the train. Is one of the greatest scenes in motion picture history. From start to finish !
Paul Newman is the one actor whom I will watch in ANY of his performances.
A must watch for Robert Redford fans is; Jeremiah Johnson (mountain man) and Three Days Of The Condor (espionage, thriller).
Phew! I'm glad you watched it ALL THE WAY to the end, Jen. I was afraid that you were going to have such flashbacks to Butch and Sundance that you would turn it off in protest before you saw the final reveal. 🤗 But you stuck with it to create another great reaction, Jenny Penny. ❤👍🙂
Lol right! Thanks Will 😂👍
Hi, Jen. With this classic about to mark its 50th anniversary, there are only about a half dozen Imdb credited cast members aside from Robert Redford who are still with us today. Among them are James Sloyan who got conned as the numbers runner Mottola soon after the film's start. Charles Dierkop and his "punchable face" played Lonnegan's lead bodyguard Floyd. Sally Kirkland played Hooker's stripper girlfriend Crystal. Joe Tornatore played the black gloved hit man.
When Dimitra Arliss died
¹ this month in 2012 it made the national news here in the USA. She was Loretta Salino and the news flash was "The HIT GIRL from THE STING has died".
Since you're among those who think Robert Redford is like an older Brad Pitt, you should check out Pitt in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (1992) which was directed by Redford and he narrates in the soundtrack. Their also is SPY GAME (2001) in which you can see Pitt and Redford on screen together. It gives "Bromance" a whole new meaning. You stay classy, Jen.
Yes! 🤩👍
EDIT: This is my first first comment. 😁
EDIT 2: Yes, Cool Hand Luke (1967). 😎
Speaking of Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, you now have to watch Spy Game from 2001. Fantastic mentor/protegee espionage movie!
AHH Yes! Forgot about that one!
The guy who played Dole Lonagan was also the Man who played the Boat captain in Jaws .
Every time I watch this movie, I want ice cream.
Recently, I heard an ice cream truck outside. The tune playing was "The Entertainer".
I started toward the door, only to realize that I'm too old to chase after the ice cream truck.
Never too old! Lol
You are NEVER too old to chase after the ice cream truck. Throw dignity to the wind and get that treat!
Three Days of the Condor Is Redford at his best it is a thriller and you will love it. It has a Winter Soldier Feel to it. Jen you need this movie in your life it is amazing
Couldn't agree more. A different sort of Robert Redford movie that I'd recommend is The Candidate. And perhaps my favorite Paul Newman performance is in The Verdict; I'd also strongly recommend seeing him in Harper, an adaptation of The Moving Target, the first novel in the Lew Archer detective series by Ross Macdonald, and remarkably faithful to the book except for inexplicably changing the hero's last name to Harper.
Faye Dunaway co-stars.
Anything Robert Shaw touches is gold
Shaw's limp was real. A week before filming began, he tore the ligaments in his knee while playing handball. The loose-fitting suits popular in the 1930's helped Shaw hide the knee brace he had to wear.
3:15 the comedian at the burlesque club is played by Leonard Barr. 2 years earlier he had a role in Diamonds Are Forever as Shady Tree, the Las Vegas comedian involved (fatally) in Blofeld's diamond smuggling ring.
Enjoyed your reaction to this excellent movie. One of my all-time favorite Robert Redford movies is "Jeremiah Johnson". I really think you would find him crush worthy in this one too.
*The diner where Redford is giving Lonnegan the tips, is the same shooting location as the diner from Back to the Future!
This is such an amazing film. This is the perfect type of film for you to react to.
You should check out Sneakers. Not a perfect film like this one, but it's a lot of fun.
Had a blast watching it ☺️👍
@@jenmurrayxo I very much second seeing Sneakers, with Redford, Poitier, Aykroyd, Phoenix, and Kingsley.
The Sting is greatness but Cool Hand Luke is epic!
Director George Roy Hill teamed up with Paul Newman one more time for one of the funniest, most underrated movies ever = Slap Shot from 1976. I highly recommend reacting to it: you might be the first! Great reaction!
I'll toss my vote in for Slap Shot, especially if you are a fan of Paul Newman. It holds up today, but it is definitely a movie of its time. Post-Watergate, poor economy, can't trust "the man," and so on. And yet it happens to be hilarious.
Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean?
This movie got me 'into' Ragtime, which later got me into New Orleans Jazz, *big-time!* That - as well as it being a really interesting and complex story - has made this a big favorite of mine! So cool to see a reaction (and a good one!) to it! Thanks!
Since you mentioned Redford and Brad Pitt, you might check out the 2001 film Spy Game, which starred both of them.
For Paul Newman, check out Slap Shot (a comedy) and Road to Perdition (not a comedy, starring Tom Hanks).
Robert Shaw was good in Black Sunday and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974, (the original, not the remake in 2009)
Nice Reaction To One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's
The year before this film, 1972, Robert Redford starred in an amusing heist movie titled "The Hot Rock", it's not "The Sting", but it's a fun watch. That same year he also played a mid 1800s mountain man in "Jeremiah Johnson", a very beautiful film.
I loved Jeremiah Johnson when it came out. I saw it 5 times in a row in our military movie theater while stationed in Germany back in 1973-1976. I smuggled my camera in and caught him raising the Hawken rifle from the hip and firing it , taking out a Crow Indian. Developed the picture myself in the Black room in our Rec Building. This movie is actually based on a real Johnson who live as a trapper like and where the movie portrayed. easy to find on Google I too watch it without fail the few times it's on TV.
Money talks
But it don't sing and dance
And it don't walk . . .
(Neil Diamond-Forever in Blue Jeans, 1979)
This movie helped revitalise the popularity of ragtime music
Was humming it for days ☺️🎶
The same way that O Brother Where Art thou revived the popularity of so-called "Ol' Timey" music of the Deep South.
This is a classic. One of the greatest. Everyone is in it.
Redford? "The Natural"
Absolutely! You must! So *SO* good.
Did you notice that Paul Newman (Gondorff) only switched the four threes for the four jacks ? He had the six of hearts in both of his hands !
Cool Hand Luke? Hells yeah!
In 1973 The Sting croaked all the other Best Picture nominees.
Jen - You NEED to react to the original Leverage TV series. There's a big con in literally EVERY episode. You'll love it!
Sounds awesome!
0:36 Yes that's Quint himself! When I watch this movie I can't help but think of Quint. Robert Shaw is so excellent in this. This is another one of my favorite movies of his.
Cool. Great Reaction. Love this movie and really enjoyed how on the edge you were at the end, not knowing for sure that Newman & Redford were dead. Priceless. :)
As for other movies, For Newman I would say Cool Hand Luke (67), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (58) and the Verdict (82); Redford in Three Days of the Condor (75), the Natural (84) and Sneakers (92); and for Shaw in the Taking of Pelham One Two Three (74), Robin & Marion (76) and Black Sunday (77)
Oooohh! Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterpiece! Probably Elizabeth Taylor's most riveting performance... "Maggie the Cat is alive!"
I like your list, thanks!
For Shaw I would say Battle of the Bulge, he is just excellent in that. The movie has a stacked cast.
@@sherigrow6480 Oh. Yeah that is a great one. :)
@@sherigrow6480 That's a great one. I also liked him in *Force 10 from Navarone* with Harrison Ford.
"When I'm an old lady I'm gonna beat people with my pocketbook."
Why wait? 😂
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Great reaction Jen. You definitely want to do Cool Hand Luke but I also highly recommend the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor with Redford and Faye Dunaway and Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist). Nobody has reacted to this great film.
Yeah I always loved that movie. It's so underrated. Faye Dunaway was in so many legendary films: Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown, Network, Barfly, Little Big Man, The Champ, Eyes of Laura Mars, The Three Musketeers (the really great 1970s version not the brat pack remake).
When you said "Dames! You Can Never Trust Them!" I got a good chuckle out of that!
They're playing Mahjong which was a big deal in the 30s. It's a fun game.
"The Sting" is one of those films with the perfect cast. It always amuses me that Gondorf calls himself Robert Shaw which is the name of the actor playing Lonnegan.
Two, probably underrated Newman movies that I love are Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975). "Gumshoe" detective stories featuring Newman as Lew Harper in both.
Totally agree. I hope Jen watches Harper.
Please watch "Cool Hand Luke" otherwise, "what we got here is a failure to communicate".
Excellent remark, but I don't think she ' gets ' it
If Paul Newman is "one of your all-time crushes," as you say, have you ever checked out "The Road to Perdition," from 2002? It was Newman's last screen role, in a truly great film that somehow, inexplicably, fell through the cracks and got missed by a lot of people, despite having a loaded cast with Newman, Tom Hanks, Jude Law and Daniel Craig and being directed by the great Sam Mendes. It's a brilliant film and I'm constantly surprised at how many people missed it.
Never saw that one!
So glad to see you react to this Jen! Check this out - the burlesque theater when Redford picks up his girl at the end, is actually the opera house set from the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, and until it was demolished in 2014, was the oldest standing set in the world!
For Paul Newman I like to recommend the Towering Inferno Co Starring Steve Mc Queen and William Holden and for Robert Shaw I recommend Force 10 From Navarone Co staring Harrison Ford
"Dick" was slang for "detective".
I knew instantly when they both appeared to die that it was all part of the scam since the movie couldn't possibly end so darkly. Great reaction!
I want to see Cool Hand Luke.
The ragtime music is out of place for the time the story takes place in the 1930's. However it was because of the movie and it;s music that ragtime was revived. The Entertainer, the song you hear at the beginning, became at hit instrumental. Soon everyone who played piano bought the sheet music and had t learn to play it...even me, lol. My peers kept asking me to play it.From Wikipedia: "Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached No. 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart in 1974.[2] The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time." unfortunately several generations now think it's called "The Ice Cream Truck song" 😂
I love how Lonigan thinks Shaw and Kelly are dead, while Snider thinks Gondorf and Hooker are dead. PERFECT! I totally thought the Feds were real the first time I saw this - yeah, WE got stung! Love this flick!
This is the kind of movie that makes you wonder why every movie doesn't have a great script and amazing actors in every role. Well, it really is hard to make good ones.
One of the greats! Excellent stuff Jen.
Please put SPY GAME (2001) on your list - it has an older Robert Redford (still handsome and charming) and his lookalike Brad Pitt!
It has twists and romance and intrigue, and is somewhat underseen/underrated imo - definitely up your street I think.
Directed by the late great Tony Scott who gave us Top Gun, Crimson Tide, Man on Fire and The Hunger! His brother Ridley gets all the praise, but Tony was no slouch!!
At the 1974 Academy Awards show, Elizabeth Taylor was the presenter for Best Picture of 1973. When she opened the envelope, she giggled and said "I am so glad. The winner is The Sting." Then she giggled again. I think she like it.
☀ Fine reaction, Jen! 🌞 $11,000 in 1936 today worth $225,000+. Also, see the Newman classic comedy: SLAPSHOT!
🌞 P.S. $500,000 in 1936 is worth roughly $10,700,000 today.
“The Way We Were “
Movie with “Robert Redford” and Barbra Streisand ..
Good movie and “Robert “is gorgeous in it!! You’ll enjoy it and enjoy looking at your new crush Robert Redford!!
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I second that recommendation, HIGHLY. “The Way We Were” is one of cinema’s great love stories and Redford and Streisand are both so great (and gorgeous) in it. It came out the same year as “The Sting.” It was a very big year for Redford.
Great reaction as always 😊😊😊but it was 500k 😮😮😮😮
$11,000 then is roughly worth in the area of $230,000 now. Redford's character bet the 2023 equivalent of about $65,000. Lonigan's $500,000 is the current equivalent of $10.5 million.
JEN IS BRUTAL. SHE RAN US OVER THE OTHER DAY, AND IT D0ES STING. QUEEN BEE JEN IS HARSH
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In Jen's defense, she may have been practicing Drifting!!! (LOL)
@@tomhoffman4330well that explains it!! all I saw was a blurr, so that is how I woke up in the hospital. I got the MURRAY FURY!
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If you really want to get your Paul Newman fix I recommend watching Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). Both Newman and Elizabeth Taylor are absolutely stunningly beautiful in it.
Some of my other fav's of Robert Redford (besides this movie): Barefoot In The Park (comedy), Three Days Of The Condor (action) and The Way We Were (romance) :)
Excellent choices and co-starring three of my favorite leading ladies... Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway and Barbra Streisand respectively. All were excellent in those rolls and really shine in these classic films -- Klute, Bonnie & Clyde and A Star is Born -- (again) respectively.
Ragtime is exactly correct. This is one of the three best movies ever made.
Cool Hand Luke is the Single best movie ever made. One common factor Paul Newman
As for your question of 10 grand in 1933 would be $228,305.38 in 2023
In this movie almost every actor was an A or B list actor. Basically if they had a speaking part they were well known.
For more Robert Shaw, *The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3* is a definite must!
What a great film. One of my favorites. Taking of pelham 123. I saw the remake with my gf and we walked out,it was that bad IMO.
Oh that's a great recommendation! I'd forgotten he was in that movie. An excellent 1970s New York thriller!
@Tom Marks @Richard Russell I used to ride the subway every day. That movie hit close to home for NYC commuters. I would get strange looks when people noticed I was reading the novel.
Oh, I just remembered that my friend's mom played one of the hostages... :D
My favorite Redford is The Natural, and I'm not even a baseball fan...I think Jen would love it!
Hi Jen, Robert Redford loved to play characters that have a dark side to them. But what you said about Redford and Pitt. You must see "A River Runs Through It" with Brad Pitt, directed by Robert Redford. I'm sure Redford would have played the Pitt's part if he had been younger. When you see it you'll understand why I said that. Aside from all that its a really beautiful film. Greetings and love from Western Australia.
PS. The Sting is film greatness.
Also a great film, starring Redford and Pitt, directed by the late, great, Tony Scott, is Spygame.
I can heartily recommend the book that inspired the movie, too: The Big Con by David Maurer. It's basically a guide to how this kind of operation was run.
For reference, a 'small' or 'short' con was something quick and dirty like the handkerchief swap at the beginning, whereas a 'Big' con is something where your mark will give you every penny in his pocket, then go to the bank tomorrow morning, empty out his account to hand that over and still wish they had more even after you've left town. Much more complex (as you see here) but much more rewarding with it.
$11,000 in today's money is about $234,875.32
It's fantastic to see someone else watching this movie for the first time. Hope you loved it.
Loved this film! Another favourite Redford film of mine is "Sneakers" where the cast also includes Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, James Earl Jones, David Strathairn, Ben Kingsley & Mary McDonnell. It has everything from suspense, humour, intrigue...you name it. It's really worth a watch Jen!
Cheers from Peterborough
'The Way We Were' with Barbara Streisand is a movie often suggested when people put forward the hansom Robert Redford. You might check it out. However, I love 'The Sting!' It's #25 in my top 250. And, I had a very, very good time in your great react. Thank You very much!
My family and I were in a movie theater near Franklin, Pa. when this movie first came out. This was before the members of the audience knew the twist ending. I and my family liked to stay until the actual end of a movie, but a lot of people in the audience got up and started to leave when Paul Newman and Robert Redford's characters got shot. They ended up running back into the theater. It was so hilarious. Thanks for the fun reaction to a great film.
One of the greatest movies ever made. May you never go tired of it!
Newman: Cool Hand Luke, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
Redford: All The President's Men, 3 Days of The Condor, Spy Game, The Natural, The last Castle
$400,000 in 1938 would equivalent to about $8.5 million today. This is one of my top 3 favorite movies. I'm so glad I came across your channel today! Paul & Robert have been my crushes for 40 years! What a great reaction to a great movie!
Thanks Jan! ☺️👍
Harold Gould (Twist) starred in a sting TV series.
(from Wikipedia)
Toni "Feather" Danton is a beautiful and clever young attorney. Her father, Harry Danton, is a shrewd and skillful confidence man. To keep Harry out of trouble, Feather hires him as an investigator for her law firm. Feather and Harry work together to help their friends and Feather's clients by bringing criminals to justice. Feather uses legal means, while Harry uses his underworld connections and extensive knowledge of scams and stings to help her with her cases. Harry assembles a gang of bunco artists-the "Feather and Father Gang"-who use disguises and elaborate ruses to trick the murderers and swindlers who victimize Feather's friends and clients into incriminating themselves.
"I really need to go eat breakfast at a diner...like tonight."
~ Jen Murray, 2023
I did in fact get diner breakfast later that evening 😂👍🍳☕️
What a great classic and I really enjoyed that time with you. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work!
Great movie and one where the audience is conned. Robert Shaw was also in From Russia with Love. A gifted actor who left us too soon.
Jen, for more Robert Redford check out the movie Three Days Of The Condor and for more Paul Newman check out the movie The Drowning Pool.
The Hustler [young Paul Newman] followed by The Color of Money [perfectly aged Paul Newman] The Hustler is a really good movie with great dialog. [I think it was award winning] The color of Money is like the sequel only 30 years later. Really, you got to watch them back-to-back and then the question is: Which Paul Newman is More Handsom?? Young brash full of vinegar? or older wiser mature? You need to make that call! Which is it? Anyway, I do hope you get a chance to watch them both. I'm thinking you will certainly like them! and HIM in them!
Really partial to Butch Cassidy 🥰
@@jenmurrayxo Then you will love "fast Eddie" in The Hustler!
I went back to check; the phone call said “place it on Lucky Dan”
Yes, I’ve seen this a few times. I listened close this time. Careful wording there. Technically should have been Lucky Dan to place, they knew he would assume to win.
Yeah, you should see Luke. So much classic. $11,000 in 1936 is about $235,000 today.