What is The Sting / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid about?

Name: The Sting / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Genre: Action/Adventure,Comedy

THE STING, 1973, Universal, 129 min. Dir. George Roy Hill. Circa 1936, con-artist Robert Redford goes to mentor Paul Newman for help when their friend is whacked by racketeer, Robert Shaw’s henchmen. Newman then decides to put a scheme in play to fleece high-roller Shaw of a small fortune. Co-starring Charles Durning, Ray Walston. This epitome of the 1970’s buddy film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, 1969, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Robert Redford is blue-eyed, laid back train robber, Sundance and Paul Newman his equally charming partner-in-crime, Butch, in director George Roy Hill’s soulful, romantic look at the infamous Hole in the Wall gang. Katherine Ross is Etta Place, the girl in their life, a loyal friend as well as paramour. Brilliantly scripted by William Goldman and photographed by master Conrad Hall.

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What is The Sting / Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid about?: THE STING, 1973, Universal, 129 min. Dir. George Roy Hill. Circa 1936, con-artist Robert Redford goes to mentor Paul Newman for help when their friend is whacked by racketeer, Robert Shaw’s henchmen. Newman then decides to put a scheme in play to fleece high-roller Shaw of a small fortune. Co-starring Charles Durning, Ray Walston. This epitome of the 1970’s buddy film won seven Oscars, including Best Picture.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, 1969, 20th Century Fox, 110 min. Robert Redford is blue-eyed, laid back train robber, Sundance and Paul Newman his equally charming partner-in-crime, Butch, in director George Roy Hill’s soulful, romantic look at the infamous Hole in the Wall gang. Katherine Ross is Etta Place, the girl in their life, a loyal friend as well as paramour. Brilliantly scripted by William Goldman and photographed by master Conrad Hall.