Two confidence tricksters, Paul Newman and Robert Redford, set out to take big time racketeer Robert Shaw for a vast sum of money after he has been responsible for the murder of Redford's elderly partner.


Books with substantial mentioning of The Sting

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Joel Finler
All-Time Box-Office Hits
New York City, 1985

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Articles on The Sting

The Sting, in: Empire, nr. 279 (September), 2012 pp. 162

Reviews

Will Lawrence, The Sting, in: Empire, nr. 198 (December), 2005 pp. 193 (DVD review)