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The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 125: The Sting (1973)
🕑 Added 2025-02-17 23:43:25 +0000 UTCThis week on the Watchcast The Sting is the thing! Join us as we time warp all the way back to the depressed '30s and delight in the con-artistry of certified grifter hunks Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
CHAPTERS:
(00:00:00) - The Nextlander Watchcast Episode 125: The Sting (1973)
(00:00:58) - Intro.
(00:03:50) - Our delightful romp of a movie this week: The Sting!
(00:11:14) - Brad has somehow never seen another Paul Newman movie.
(00:13:13) - Getting into the production history.
(00:19:06) - What a cast.
(00:24:13) - Some of the stylistic choices they make in the movie.
(00:30:11) - Somehow this is (or was at the time) the oldest movie available on Netflix.
(00:32:45) - Getting into the movie itself.
(00:38:20) - What is going on in Hooker's life.
(00:42:04) - Alas, poor Luther.
(00:49:04) - Break!
(00:49:38) - We're back, and it's time to meet Paul Newman.
(00:55:43) - Assembling the crew.
(00:59:23) - Riding the poker train.
(01:15:05) - This is quite the elaborate production.
(01:20:45) - Lonnegan wants to meet the inside man, and a quick chase around Chicago.
(01:24:57) - Throwing together a Western Union.
(01:27:36) - FBI issue straw hats.
(01:34:08) - Hooker is on the hook, and the black-gloved figure is revealed.
(01:40:21) - The Big C.
(01:53:49) - Final thoughts.
(02:02:14) - Our movie for next week: Parasite!
(02:04:46) - Outro.
Comments
Jack Che
Just getting around to listening to this. Pacino did not win an Oscar until Scent of a Woman.
Michael Polston
In the grand tradition of my opinion running counter to Nextlander's (really liked Ready Player One, thought Gattica was boring), I thought this movie didn't get good until I started watching it on 1.5 speed. I love movies from this time period, but this had all the problems of the World War Two movies from the late 60s and early 70s, which is to say it could have been about an hour shorter and I would have enjoyed it more. Tighten up those shots, speak a little more quickly, remove a bunch of unnecessary scenes.
