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Eric D. Snider<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 14 Tricky Facts About The Sting<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. REUNITING BUTCH AND SUNDANCE WASN\u2019T THE NO-BRAINER YOU\u2019D EXPECT. 6. ROBERT SHAW\u2019S LIMP WAS REAL.<\/strong> 8. THE DIRECTOR ISN\u2019T AS FAMOUS AS YOU\u2019D THINK, CONSIDERING HE MADE TWO OF THE HIGHEST-GROSSING FILMS OF ALL TIME.<\/strong> Eric D. Snider and Mental_Floss present 14 Tricky Facts About The Sting. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 2. REUNITING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-humor","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13289,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13288\/revisions\/13289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n<\/strong>Separately, Robert Redford and Paul Newman were two of the biggest movie stars in the world in the early 1970s. As a duo, they were perhaps even more popular, with mega-hit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em> (1969) fresh in people\u2019s memories. When the director of that film, George Roy Hill, signed on for The Sting<\/em>, Redford soon followed. Then came Newman, as described above. But while a Butch and Sundance reunion sounded tempting (and lucrative), the studio had a concern: In the movie, the two con men\u2019s partnership hinges on the possibility that one (or both) will try to double-cross the other. With Redford and Newman so famously chummy, Universal was concerned that audiences wouldn\u2019t believe such a betrayal was possible, and the film would thus lose some of its suspense. Hill assuaged their fears.<\/p>\n
\nShaw, who played crime boss Doyle Lonnegan in the film, hurt his leg playing racquetball two days before shooting began.\u00a0Director Hill decided to work with it and had Shaw turn his injury into a character trait.<\/p>\n
\nGeorge Roy Hill\u2019s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em> made $102 million in 1969, or about $575 million at today\u2019s ticket prices. When Hill reunited with his Butch and Sundance for The Sting<\/em>, the result took in $156 million ($723 million adjusted for inflation). The Sting<\/em> was the fourth highest-grossing film in history at the time, behind The Exorcist<\/em> (which was released the same week), Gone with the Wind<\/em>, and The Sound of Music<\/em>, and ahead of The Godfather<\/em>.Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em> was number eight, making Hill the only director to have two movies in the top 10. But Hill was reclusive compared to most Hollywood directors, disliking publicity tours and talk show interviews. As a result, despite his successes (he also made Slap Shot<\/em> and The World According to Garp<\/em>), he never quite became a household name.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"