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On the podcast this week, Steven and Sean are dusting off their finest pin-striped suits and concocting a foolproof plan to win big with this week\\u2019s episode. It\\u2019s the 1973 film from George Roy Hill, The Sting.

Is there anything better than a Paul Newman-Robert Redford team-up? This one and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes to show us all that those two make some serious magic when they\\u2019re on-screen together. We love their work and wish they could have co-starred in at least one more film, but sadly \\u2019tis not in the cards for us. We\\u2019ll always have those two, though. They\\u2019re satisfying enough.

In this film, we\\u2019ve got one of the greatest cons ever set to film. Who doesn\\u2019t love to pull a fast one over on ol\\u2019 Robert Shaw? If you\\u2019re anything like Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker, then you\\u2019re going to delight in taking advantage of him. Did he have it coming? Well yeah! Dude killed Johnny\\u2019s good friend, Luther Coleman. Of course he had it coming, and he deserved a hell of a lot more. He lost a bunch of money; Luther lost his life. How is that fair? What a damn shame.

Amid all this is a con artist story like you dream about. This is one of those classic films that so many others have tried to emulate. Most of them aren\\u2019t successful. It\\u2019s hard enough to capture lightning in a bottle once, and it\\u2019s danged near impossible to do it twice. The significance of The Sting reverberates throughout film history. Without it, we\\u2019d miss out on so many other thrilling stories.

We loved watching this film unfold, sometimes getting conned ourselves. It\\u2019s the sort of story that film lovers want to experience. If you enjoy watching a great movie with a stellar cast, confident writing, and wonderful direction, this is sure to be a good one for you.

(Recorded on October 05, 2020)

Links to Stuff We Mentioned:

The Sting - IMDb

The Sting trailer - YouTube

Wilhelm scream - Wikipedia

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - IMDb

Raiders of the Lost Ark - IMDb

The Terminator - IMDb

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl - IMDb

Paul Newman - IMDb

Robert Redford - IMDb

Robert Shaw - IMDb

Ocean's Eleven - IMDb

Ocean's Twelve - IMDb

Ocean's Thirteen - IMDb

Confidence - IMDb

Ocean's 11 - IMDb

Ocean's 8 - IMDb

Scott Joplin - Wikipedia

Baby Driver - IMDb

The Invisible Man - Art of the Title

The Invisible Man | More Movies Please! - Libsyn

Galaxy Quest - IMDb

Lassie - Wikipedia

John Wick - IMD