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The Sting

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The Sting	comment	The Sting is an iconic con film released in 1973. It reunites Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid director George Roy Hill with stars Robert Redford and Paul Newman. The supporting cast includes Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, and Dana Elcar.September, 1936: In Joliet, Illinois, novice con man Johnny Hooker (Redford) pulls off a classic "pigeon drop" scam, along with his partner Joe Erie (Jack Kehoe) and their mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones). Unfortunately, they've bitten off more than they can chew this time; it seems their victim was a courier for ruthess Big Bad racketeer Doyle Lonnegan (Shaw). After Lonnegan's goons rub out Luther and take a hit out on Hooker's head, he goes to Chicago, where he seeks out his late mentor's friend Henry Gondorff (Newman), a master of the "big con". Assembling their team, Hooker and Gondorff prepare to avenge Luther by scamming the big one out of Lonnegan.Just to complicate matters, Hooker is being chased both by Lonnegan's shadowy hit man Salino and by corrupt Joliet policeman Snyder (Durning), who demands a cut of the money taken from Lonnegan. And all the while, the team has to make sure Lonnegan never finds out he's being conned, otherwise he'll put hits on all of them.The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, winning seven (including Best Picture). It is also one of the biggest box office hits of all time; when adjusted for inflation, it currently sits as the 19th-best domestic earner of all time according to BoxOfficeMojo.com. It is also a film best gone into blind, so it's best to watch it before reading this page!
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The Sting / int_130f112c	type	Confiscated Phone
The Sting / int_130f112c	comment	Confiscated Phone: Hooker pulls a woman making out of a call out of a pay phone booth in order to try to call Luther before he's murdered, then runs off to try and reach him. Hooker's friend is left behind, being swatted by the woman and her purse because she lost her nickel and wants it back.
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The Sting / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
The Sting / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Small con artist Luther is killed on Lonnegan's orders in the first arc of the movie. This triggers the big con against the murderer.
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The Sting / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
The Sting / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: First, Lonnegan hires Salino to kill Hooker, and when Hooker is walking through an alley, smiles, seeing his girlfriend, a man behind Hooker pulls out a gun, points it, and shoots her. Turns out he's a body guard Gondorff hired to protect Hooker, and Hooker's girlfriend was actually Salino, the assassin who would have killed him. Second, the FBI guys bust into the gambling den to arrest Gondorff, and per their promise, let Hooker go. At this point, Gondorff shoots Hooker, and the FBI guy shoots Gondorff. The FBI guy has the cop rush Lonnegan out of the place. After they leave, Gondorff and Hooker get up, with blood stains like they've been shot. We then find out it was a scam to make both the cop and Lonnegan think they're both dead. Rather famously, promotions for this film included requests that those leaving the cinema not spoil the ending for those waiting in line for the next showing.
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The Sting / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Sting / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: After almost getting ambushed by two hitmen waiting at his apartment, Hooker goes directly to the betting parlour and pours himself a drink.
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The Sting / int_1fb9a341	type	Revenge Is Sweet
The Sting / int_1fb9a341	comment	Revenge Is Sweet: After The Con the film revolves around has left Doyle Lonnegan out of a really big sum of money and with a lot of egg on his face (including thinking that he may be wanted by the police for a dual murder he did not do), Johnny Hooker is asked by Henry Gondorff how he feels. Johnny (who started the con because he wanted to get revenge on Lonnegan for killing his friend Luther but knowing he wasn't any good at trying to kill the guy) says that it feels great and laughs with Gondorff for a while.
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The Sting / int_20d88961	type	Burlesque
The Sting / int_20d88961	comment	Burlesque: Hooker's girlfriend is shown performing in a Burlesque show. Yes, she's a stripper.
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The Sting / int_225527db	type	Cult Soundtrack
The Sting / int_225527db	comment	Cult Soundtrack: The soundtrack did a lot to make Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" popular among people unfamiliar with ragtime. Unknown to many viewers, the music was anachronistic for the time period portrayed; ragtime's heyday was circa 1900 and was pretty much completely forgotten in the 1930s.
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The Sting / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Sting / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: A very quick one. When Hooker and Gondorff get ready for the Sting, you can see them place their fake blood packs. If you look while he's getting ready, you can see Gondorff's blood pack, as well.
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The Sting / int_231e8193	type	Mistaken Identity
The Sting / int_231e8193	comment	Mistaken Identity: Lonnegan spends the entire movie sending people to kill Luther's partner Hooker (who he's never seen). Meanwhile, he's heavily involved with "Shaw's" turncoat "Kelly" (who the goons trying to kill Hooker have never seen). He never realizes that Hooker and "Kelly" are the same person.
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The Sting / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
The Sting / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: The Dreaded assassin Salino and the waitress Loretta are one and the same.
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The Sting / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Sting / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Ya folla?
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The Sting / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Sting / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Lonnegan, the mark, to the point one fellow con man prefers money in advance over a cut of the winnings and another points out if the thing blows up, the Feds will be the least of our problems.
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The Sting / int_2cac8d77	type	Rooting for the Empire
The Sting / int_2cac8d77	comment	Rooting for the Empire: In-universe example, Luther's wife is displeased about their kids rooting for the police against Machine Gun Kelly in a radio serial.
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The Sting / int_2dd590cb	type	Title Drop Chapter
The Sting / int_2dd590cb	comment	Title Drop Chapter: Each section of the film is introduced with a title card. The last section, in which the gang performs the climactic con, is titled "The Sting".
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The Sting / int_2fcd835a	type	Handbag of Hurt
The Sting / int_2fcd835a	comment	Handbag of Hurt: After Hooker yanks a woman out of a phone booth, the woman hits both Hooker and his partner with her purse.
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The Sting / int_30cffab7	type	Illegal Gambling Den
The Sting / int_30cffab7	comment	Illegal Gambling Den: The initial "pigeon drop" scam nets the week's take from one of Lonnegan's illegal gambling dens. Later, Hooker and Gondorff set up their own illegal gambling den for the big con.
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The Sting / int_3174384e	type	Shameful Source of Knowledge
The Sting / int_3174384e	comment	Shameful Source of Knowledge: Doyle Lonnegan tries to cheat Henry Gondorff with a stacked deck during a poker game, but Gondorff outsmarts him by switching out the cards he was given for better ones.
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The Sting / int_356af72f	type	Searching the Stalls
The Sting / int_356af72f	comment	Searching the Stalls: Johnny Hooker is trying to escape a hitman trying to kill him. He goes into a restroom to hide. The hit man enters and starts opening doors to find him. He gets to the last stall and realizes there's a woman inside. He figures Hooker went out the window and does the same. It turns out Hooker was inside the stall with the woman — she was helping him.
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The Sting / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
The Sting / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: All of the cons rely on the mark behaving in a manner they're expected to. Hooker and Luther expected Mottola to stick around to offer aid to Luther so that he could get conned into handing over his cash. Lonnegan could have backed out at any time or done something the con artists didn't expect to see through the charade.
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The Sting / int_39afa76b	type	"Awkward Silence" Entrance
The Sting / int_39afa76b	comment	"Awkward Silence" Entrance: When police lieutenant Snyder walks into the Chicago bar where the local Con Artists hang out, all of the bar patrons fall silent because they don't recognize him and believe he may be a cop.
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The Sting / int_3ad4462	type	Reverse Relationship Reveal
The Sting / int_3ad4462	comment	Reverse Relationship Reveal: We see the gloved hand of a man stalking Johnny Hooker, then later that hand raising a gun and firing... at Hooker's new girlfriend (who later is shown about to kill Hooker). Then the man comes out of hiding, explains the situation, and tells Johnny he (the man) was hired by Gondorff to protect Johnny.
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The Sting / int_40a94897	type	The Irish Mob
The Sting / int_40a94897	comment	The Irish Mob: Strangely, in post-Capone Chicago.
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The Sting / int_4159744	type	The Magic Poker Equation
The Sting / int_4159744	comment	The Magic Poker Equation: Justified in this case because both players are cheating.
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The Sting / int_44db43ce	type	Staged Shooting
The Sting / int_44db43ce	comment	Staged Shooting: Hooker and Gondorff, as part of their Big Con.
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The Sting / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Sting / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Hooker has one (along with new clothes and a manicure) when he puts himself under the tutelage of Gondorff at the beginning the long con.
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The Sting / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
The Sting / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: We know we're watching a con, then the movie cons the audience into thinking (1) Hooker had agreed to turn Gondorff in to the FBI; (2) Hooker and Gondorff were killed until we see that it was all a setup.
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The Sting / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Sting / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Lonnegan, who is outconned at every turn.
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The Sting / int_502b147b	type	Playing Drunk
The Sting / int_502b147b	comment	Playing Drunk: Gondorff pretends to be drunk to justify acting offensively toward Doyle Lonnegan. To enhance his act he gargles with gin to get alcohol-laden breath and brings along a gin bottle cut with water to drink from.
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The Sting / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Sting / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Lonnegan is not the kind of man who accepts being fooled, in any way, shape or form. He makes clear to Floyd that he would kill a man who he considers a very personal friend if that man beat him at a golf game by cheating and he orders the manhunt of the con artists who took just one of his number racket envelopes (and the dude who let himself be robbed).
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The Sting / int_529362a3	type	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping
The Sting / int_529362a3	comment	Obsessive-Compulsive Barkeeping: The bartender in Billie's whorehouse can be seen drying a glass with a cloth.
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The Sting / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Sting / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Floyd to his boss, The Big Bad Doyle Lonnegan. He's unafraid to disagree with Lonnegan, and even mildly argues with him.
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The Sting / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Sting / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The film opens with a sepia-tinted version of the 1936-46 Art Deco Universal logo.
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The Sting / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
The Sting / int_54cc6b24	comment	Le Parkour: The chase/evasion scene at the elevated train stop.
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The Sting / int_55ca8aa	type	The Mob Boss Is Scarier
The Sting / int_55ca8aa	comment	The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Flat-out said with the line that provides the page quote: Lonnegan is such a homicidal brute that if he catches wind that he's the victim of the con, every single conman will need to fear his retaliation for the rest of their lives (which will be very short, if Lonnegan has any say in it).
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The Sting / int_572249f0	type	Straight Edge Evil
The Sting / int_572249f0	comment	Straight Edge Evil: Doyle Lonnegan is a sober country-club-member banking gentleman with no apparent interest in women and whose only vice is poker ... and he cheats. He's good at it too. His real money comes from his numbers racket, and he won't hesitate to murder anyone who cons him out of a single payment from a single runner on a single day of it.
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The Sting / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
The Sting / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Gondorff and Hooker when they first meet (Hooker finds Gondorff passed out next to his bed, and gives him a shower with his clothes on to sober him up):
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The Sting / int_5a8f3057	type	Hand Signals
The Sting / int_5a8f3057	comment	Hand Signals: The Con Artist recognition signal and Dukie's "stop" sign.
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The Sting / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
The Sting / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: The final con hinges on the fact that you can place a bet for a horse to place (i.e., come in 2nd).
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The Sting / int_5b88d4c4	type	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted
The Sting / int_5b88d4c4	comment	A Fool and His New Money Are Soon Parted: Hooker is a con artist, but his wits do not apply beyond his profession and he engages in ruinous Suspicious Spending, losing his share in an afternoon. He becomes aware of it so in the end he forfeits his share.
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The Sting / int_5cd4cebb	type	No Badass to His Valet
The Sting / int_5cd4cebb	comment	No Badass to His Valet: Floyd has this kind of relationship to his boss Doyle Lonnegan. He's unafraid to disagree with Lonnegan, and even mildly argue with him, even though he knows that Lonnegan is not reluctant to have people killed.
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The Sting / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
The Sting / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: Doyle Lonnegan is none to pleased with Floyd for telling him what he already knows. That "Mr. Shaw" pulled a switch from quad threes to quad Jacks during the rigged hand, which Lonnegan then lost.
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The Sting / int_60f567f1	type	Lonely Piano Piece
The Sting / int_60f567f1	comment	Lonely Piano Piece: The film features a piece called "Solace," done both as a piano solo only and as well as an orchestral version. And yes, it's played during the rain.
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The Sting / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Sting / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Lonnegan's common stance, prominent example towards the train attendant who vouched for Shaw (Gondorff), when Shaw shows up and is revealed to be a drunkard.
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The Sting / int_65d658f	type	Putting the Band Back Together
The Sting / int_65d658f	comment	Putting the Band Back Together: Henry Gondorff contacting his old crew. Kid Twist checks who else is available for the big con:
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The Sting / int_6635b91e	type	Restrained Revenge
The Sting / int_6635b91e	comment	Restrained Revenge: In revenge for the murder of Luther, Hooker settles for cheating Lonnegan out of a fortune rather than seeking to kill him.
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The Sting / int_66cdb21b	type	Gag Penis
The Sting / int_66cdb21b	comment	Gag Penis: An old burlesque joke told by burlesque comic Leonard Barr. The punchline is, "Yeah, but this one's eating my popcorn!".
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The Sting / int_6acb79b2	type	Episode Title Card
The Sting / int_6acb79b2	comment	Episode Title Card: Each named act is introduced by a hand-drawn title card.
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The Sting / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
The Sting / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Luther's death combines this trope with Retirony.
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The Sting / int_6bd9e644	type	Meaningful Look
The Sting / int_6bd9e644	comment	Meaningful Look: Each con man arriving in Chicago casually flicks his nose with his right index finger to signal that he's "in" on the plan to fleece Doyle Lonnegan.
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The Sting / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Sting / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Hooker is a snarer. It seems to be his real surname and not an In-Universe Nickname. Lampshaded in one of the chapter headings on the DVD: Hooker Hooked by the Feds.
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The Sting / int_6d7fb55	type	Fake Brit
The Sting / int_6d7fb55	comment	Fake Brit: In-universe. Curly Jackson, a grifter from Baltimore who joins the con, specializes in masquerading as an Englishman.
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The Sting / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Sting / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "The big con", referring both to the nested plots of the ever-more-complex scheme, and the supreme moment of revenge over Lonegan.
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The Sting / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
The Sting / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: During the burlesque scene, the first part of a background joke is not heard because Hooker is talking.
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The Sting / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
The Sting / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert: When Henry Gondorff is doing card tricks before the poker game, the hands doing the tricks are actually those of John Scarne, famous magician and expert on gambling and card manipulation.
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The Sting / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Sting / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Billie, the madam who runs a whorehouse and carousel is Gondorff's girlfriend, who apparently loves him.
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The Sting / int_7842867	type	Vengeance Feels Empty
The Sting / int_7842867	comment	Vengeance Feels Empty: In the final scene Hooker, proving Gondorff right, feels this way after beating Lonnegan and remarks vengeance is not enough. He still cracks a joke: "but it's close!"
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The Sting / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
The Sting / int_7d163c9c	comment	Dating Catwoman: Loretta, the waitress, who saves Hooker's life and with whom he then spends the night, turns out to be the feared hired killer Loretta Salino, who all along intended to kill him herself.
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The Sting / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Sting / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: A silenced revolver appears at one point.
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The Sting / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
The Sting / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: Subverted, Gondorff is introduced in the story during a heavy hangover but it's a one-time instance and he is a Consummate Professional, despite Hooker's first impression. He later pretends to be one while gambling with Lonnegan as "Mr Shaw," using gin that's mostly water so that he doesn't actually get drunk.
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The Sting / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
The Sting / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death: Subverted; it's revealed that the hit man hired to rub out Hooker is named Salino. However, the ominous black-gloved hands that show up every so often are those of the bodyguard Gondorff hired for Hooker. The bodyguard shoots Salino.
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The Sting / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Sting / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Subverted with the main duo and with other characters; as befits a con film, few things are what they seem to be at first: Hooker is in the middle of a short con, so he deliberately projects the image of a random bystander. Some clues about his deception may be picked up in hindsight. Gondorff appears to be an alcoholic washout in his first appearance, but he is a Consummate Professional and one of the best con artists out there. Played very straight with Lonnegan, who casually talks to his Dragon while playing golf in an upstate New York club that he will kill anybody who tries to dupe, mock, or steal from him in any way whatsoever (even the long-time friend that he's playing golf with) and to put more effort into finding the men who stole from him to Make an Example of Them; showcasing that his sophistication and straight-edgedness are just a mask for a Hair-Trigger Temper, Disproportionate Retribution, kill-happy brute (and, quite justifiably, The Dreaded).
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The Sting / int_8077793f	type	Open Secret
The Sting / int_8077793f	comment	Open Secret: Mundane example with Hooker's big hit.
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The Sting / int_82ab88c5	type	Percussive Pickpocket
The Sting / int_82ab88c5	comment	Percussive Pickpocket: While Doyle Lonnegan is walking through the train to the poker game, Billie (Gondorff's girlfriend) bumps into him and steals his wallet. He doesn't notice until after he loses big at the poker game and tries to take it out to pay off his debt.
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The Sting / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
The Sting / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: With horse racing odds and results.
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The Sting / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
The Sting / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The protagonists are con men who swindle people for a living, but their antagonists are worse; a scummy courier, a corrupt brutal cop and a ruthless gangster.
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The Sting / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
The Sting / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Is mentioned offhandedly that Lonnegan is a Knight of Columbus and is primarily known as a banker.
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The Sting / int_88dbce75	type	Card Sharp
The Sting / int_88dbce75	comment	Card Sharp: Gondorff demonstrates his skill against Lonnegan as the setup for the big con. (The card manipulations in the film are actually performed by John Scarne.)
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The Sting / int_8984e5d1	type	Commonality Connection
The Sting / int_8984e5d1	comment	Commonality Connection: While the con men are planning to pull a scam on Doyle Lonnegan, J.J. Singleton mentions that Lonnegan came from a place called Five Points. Later on, when Lonnegan asks Hooker where he's from, he says that he came from Five Points in the hope that it will cause Lonnegan to trust him.
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The Sting / int_8a7e27b5	type	Stab the Scorpion
The Sting / int_8a7e27b5	comment	Stab the Scorpion: The black-gloved gunman steps around the corner into an alley and fires a silenced gun, apparently at Hooker. He kills Loretta, then reveals that she's actually the assassin Loretta Salino, who's been assigned the hit on Hooker and was about to kill him.
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The Sting / int_8a986cc7	type	The Great Depression
The Sting / int_8a986cc7	comment	The Great Depression: Chicago 1936; why the Universal Studios logo of that time was used.
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The Sting / int_8b9d9672	type	Underdressed for the Occasion
The Sting / int_8b9d9672	comment	Underdressed for the Occasion: Gondorff deliberately dresses like a drunken slob at a big poker game with Lonnegan on a train.
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The Sting / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Sting / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Mottola, the mob courier that Hooker and Luther con in the opening of the film. It's hard to feel sorry for his getting scammed out of $10,000 considering he thought he was taking Luther for 5 grand. And laughing about it.
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The Sting / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
The Sting / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: The opening con; a team of con artists (Johnny Hooker, Luther Coleman and Joe Erie) inadvertently swindle a numbers runner for crime boss Doyle Lonnegan. Lonnegan assigns hitmen to find and kill each of them, and the hitmen appear and carry out attacks throughout the movie.
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The Sting / int_91b740a6	type	Karmic Thief
The Sting / int_91b740a6	comment	Karmic Thief: The Con Men scam a mobster who murdered one of their fellow con artists.
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The Sting / int_92dfffae	type	Retraux
The Sting / int_92dfffae	comment	Retraux: The film opens with a sepia-tinted version of the 1936-46 Universal logo. The different "chapters" of the story are introduced with old-fashioned title cards, done in the style of Norman Rockwell's vintage Saturday Evening Post illustrations and bearing titles like "The Tale", "The Set-Up", etc. Scene transitions are done with old-fashioned wipe effects. And the film ends with a classic Iris Out.
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The Sting / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
The Sting / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Hooker's driving force against Lonnegan. Also the reason for Gondorff and his band, but more toned down to avoid unprofessionalism.
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The Sting / int_95713538	type	Outside Ride
The Sting / int_95713538	comment	Outside Ride: Hooker grabs on to the outside of a street-cleaning vehicle in order to escape from two of Lonnegan's thugs.
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The Sting / int_95d67d24	type	Get Thee to a Nunnery
The Sting / int_95d67d24	comment	Get Thee to a Nunnery: The title. In old parlance, it was the final part of a con — the bit where the con men took the mark's money — and could be used metonymically for the whole con itself. Today, people tend to think of police sting operations. (Which is rather circular- the original Operation Sting was named for this movie.)
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The Sting / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Sting / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Doyle Lonnegan.
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The Sting / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
The Sting / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Luther Coleman, unfortunately runs afoul of this trope.
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The Sting / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
The Sting / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Many of the main characters. Erie and Hooker start in a lower, Hustler territory since they lack experience in the con.
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The Sting / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
The Sting / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: Johnny Hooker has many tics, including the way he holds a cup of coffee and the way he throws one shoulder back.
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The Sting / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Sting / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Albeit brief. J.J. Singleton warns Gondorff before the poker game that Lonnegan likes to rig four-of-a-kind hands with low cards for his opponent versus "eights or nines." During the actual game, that information obviously sets the alarm bells going for Gondorff when he's dealt four threes, and allows him to settle on the higher four of a kind in Jacks, since he knows the highest hand Lonnegan rigs for himself is nines. Also, After Gondorff hears that Lt. Snyder is stalking Hooker, Gondorff says Snyder is a problem that they'll need to deal with....Then we never actually see him do anything. However, shortly after that scene, "Agent Polk" and his "FBI team" show up and recruit Snyder, which may tip off first-time viewers who are paying close attention that there's more to "Agent Polk" than meets the eye.
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The Sting / int_a18d407b	type	Samus Is a Girl
The Sting / int_a18d407b	comment	Samus Is a Girl: Salino's first name is Loretta.
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The Sting / int_a3f1531b	type	Standard Snippet
The Sting / int_a3f1531b	comment	Standard Snippet: "The Entertainer," by Scott Joplin, is the film's main theme.
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The Sting / int_a632f7fa	type	Cool Train
The Sting / int_a632f7fa	comment	Cool Train: Gondorff takes Lonnegan in a high-stakes poker game aboard the 20th Century Limited.
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The Sting / int_a8476736	type	Keep the Reward
The Sting / int_a8476736	comment	Keep the Reward: A variation in the end, Hooker forfeits his share because he wasn't in it for the money and he reckons he would blow it anyway.
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The Sting / int_a8556a04	type	Video Credits
The Sting / int_a8556a04	comment	Video Credits: The opening credits show the main cast with actor and character names.
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The Sting / int_a8e6393d	type	Nose Tapping
The Sting / int_a8e6393d	comment	Nose Tapping: A signal between the con men.
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The Sting / int_acd599b6	type	Con Men Hate Guns
The Sting / int_acd599b6	comment	Con Men Hate Guns: Averted, Hooker would happily kill the villain in revenge for the murder of his friend Luther, but realizes that he doesn't know enough about killing people to successfully pull it off and opts for cheating him out of a fortune instead.
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The Sting / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Sting / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Subverted, the con men quietly panic when Lonnegan approaches the inexperienced Joe Erie, but Erie delivers a magnificent performance. When Harmon tells Lonnegan—who bet $500,000 on Lucky Dan to win—that Lucky Dan is going to run second.
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The Sting / int_ad3e13c5	type	The Loins Sleep Tonight
The Sting / int_ad3e13c5	comment	The Loins Sleep Tonight: The weary Gondorff the night before the big con. Used as counterpoint to the up-and-coming Hooker, who scores a one night stand.
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The Sting / int_ad43ba7f	type	Non-Nude Bathing
The Sting / int_ad43ba7f	comment	Non-Nude Bathing: When Hooker arrives at Gondorff's home, he finds him sleeping off his drunkenness. He puts Gondorff in a shower fully clothed to sober him up.
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The Sting / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Sting / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Hooker. Erie occasionally. Snyder is the regular target of their sarcastic quips. Lonnegan, of all people, has his moments too; when he rubs Erie's nose in it regarding a losing tip and when he makes a jab about insulating his bodyguard from smart guys, lest he starts thinking for himself.
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The Sting / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Sting / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Doyle Lonnegan's "Ya folla?" (You follow?), used habitually enough to be something of a Verbal Tic.
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The Sting / int_b4de919d	type	Make an Example of Them
The Sting / int_b4de919d	comment	Played very straight with Lonnegan, who casually talks to his Dragon while playing golf in an upstate New York club that he will kill anybody who tries to dupe, mock, or steal from him in any way whatsoever (even the long-time friend that he's playing golf with) and to put more effort into finding the men who stole from him to Make an Example of Them; showcasing that his sophistication and straight-edgedness are just a mask for a Hair-Trigger Temper, Disproportionate Retribution, kill-happy brute (and, quite justifiably, The Dreaded).
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The Sting / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
The Sting / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Hooker fakes this at the end as part of the big con.
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The Sting / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
The Sting / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: Mottola (the money runner Hooker's crew steals the $11,000 from in the first scene) was found in a quarry with a knife in his eye.
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The Sting / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Sting / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: After Hooker puts the drunken Gondorff fully-clothed into a cold shower.
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The Sting / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Sting / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Doyle Lonnegan gets angry if you mispronounce his name (though he has the self-control to hold back for at least a little while).
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The Sting / int_bda018c5	type	Money to Burn
The Sting / int_bda018c5	comment	Money to Burn: The print ad shows Henry Gondorff lighting his cigar with legal tender.
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The Sting / int_bdc0a18e	type	Idiosyncratic Wipes
The Sting / int_bdc0a18e	comment	Idiosyncratic Wipes: The film occasionally uses an artsy wipe, such as a side-to-side wipe in which the transition follows a merry-go-round horse.
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The Sting / int_c3c7d2e5	type	Criminal Procedural
The Sting / int_c3c7d2e5	comment	Criminal Procedural: A team of con artists setting up shop to scam a racketeer.
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The Sting / int_c6b2fdd1	type	Fixing the Game
The Sting / int_c6b2fdd1	comment	Fixing the Game: Henry Gondorff joins Doyle Lonnegan's poker game aboard a Chicago-bound train, and he's on a run. Donegan tries to use a loaded deck after a break, and when hands are called, he has four nines. Initially, Gondorff was dealt four threes, but when he shows his hand, he has four Jacks. Hooker loses $3,000 on a fixed roulette spin.
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The Sting / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Sting / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Hooker loses a bundle at a rigged roulette wheel that comes up 22 — the same number that comes up on the rigged roulette wheel in Casablanca.
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The Sting / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Sting / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: The audience is aware of most of the setup, but there are several details that remain hidden until the very end.
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The Sting / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Luther is killed shortly after he tells Hooker how he'll use his share to go straight and support his family.
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The Sting / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The black-gloved gunman who Gondorff hired to guard Hooker, and who rescues him from getting killed by Loretta Salino.
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The Sting / int_cc5c18b6	comment	Iris Out: The movie ends with one.
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The Sting / int_cde96a62	type	Booked Full of Mooks
The Sting / int_cde96a62	comment	Booked Full of Mooks: Master con man Henry Gondorff engineers a plan to fleece thuggish racketeer Doyle Lonnegan in revenge for the slaying of Luther Coleman. The con involves an underground betting parlor where the race results are held up while the odds are shifted. The whole place is staffed with almost every grifter in the midwest, essential to control all of Lonnegan's perceptions. Even the federal marshals that arrive to shut down Gondorff's parlor are actually fellow con men armed with blanks.
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The Sting / int_ce730b71	type	Death by Recognition
The Sting / int_ce730b71	comment	Death by Recognition: A variant where the victim actually mentions the name. After a mook chases Johnny and loses him in a back alley, he turns around and notices Salino who is positioned offscreen behind the camera. Then shots ring out and the mook goes down dead.
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The Sting / int_cf3966e6	type	Suspicious Spending
The Sting / int_cf3966e6	comment	Suspicious Spending: Hooker blows through his entire stake of a large con job in a single afternoon, which alerts the villain to his identity.
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The Sting / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Sting / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Luther calls Hooker out on his Suspicious Spending. It's most unwise for a con man to be flashing his money.
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The Sting / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
The Sting / int_d6519b1b	comment	Rabid Cop: Lieutenant Snyder. His Establishing Character Moment is pulling a borderline-Car Fu Dynamic Entry on Hooker in order to muscle all of Hooker's share of the runner's money out of him, he intimidates and beats up his way through the Chicago underworld to find Hooker, pulls a second Dynamic Entry-slash-Click Hello on Hooker by smashing his pistol-packing hand through a phone booth's glass... there is also the fact that Snyder is a cop from Joliet, Illinois and probably doesn't have jurisdiction in Chicago, yet he continues to act like he has full authority.
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The Sting / int_db99b292	type	Mondegreen Gag
The Sting / int_db99b292	comment	Mondegreen Gag: Invoked in the final bet with the horse Lucky Dan. "I said place! Place it on Lucky... That horse is gonna run second!"
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The Sting / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
The Sting / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: One of the first characters seen on screen, Mottola.
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The Sting / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Sting / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: The story was inspired by real-life con games perpetrated by the brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.
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The Sting / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
The Sting / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: Lonnegan's courier/Hooker and Luther's mark, in the opening.
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The Sting / int_e7ae07f5	type	Briefcase Full of Money
The Sting / int_e7ae07f5	comment	Briefcase Full of Money: Lonnegan takes one of these to bet at the con.
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The Sting / int_e8428d18	type	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!
The Sting / int_e8428d18	comment	Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: Henry Gondorff joins banker Doyle Lonnegan's crooked poker game in order to earn Lonnegan's ire. Once Gondorff is dealt a hand of four Treys, he knows a stacked deck play is in effect. At the climax of the hand, Lonnegan plays four Nines ... and Gondorff lays down four Jacks. When his adjutant wonders why Lonnegan suffered the loss, Lonnegan growls at him: "What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me in front of the others?"
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The Sting / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Sting / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: One of the key ways they make sure Lonnegan doesn't figure out he's been conned, along with the fake feds busting in and the real cop hustling him away. Kid Twist tells Lonnegan he said to bet on Lucky Dan to place - that is, come in second or better - rather than win, but by then it's too late to change the bet. Subverted in that his actual exact words were "place it on Lucky Dan." . Some dubbed version get around this by playing with the ambiguity of the phrase "second Riverside Park race" vs "second [pause], Riverside Park race".
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The Sting / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
The Sting / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Mottola the cash runner doesn't volunteer to take down the pickpocket, but he rushes over to see if Luther is OK and hand back his envelope, which is what allows the con artists to tempt him with a huge payday and get his own cash stolen. However, he turns into an Asshole Victim when he decides to steal what he believes is a free payday.
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The Sting / int_ed84457a	type	Consummate Professional
The Sting / int_ed84457a	comment	Gondorff appears to be an alcoholic washout in his first appearance, but he is a Consummate Professional and one of the best con artists out there.
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The Sting / int_edeafb2e	type	Malicious Misnaming
The Sting / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: Gondorff repeatedly and deliberately gets Lonnegan's surname wrong to get under his skin.
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The Sting / int_ee481121	type	Bringing in the Expert
The Sting / int_ee481121	comment	Bringing in the Expert: After Hooker and his partners con one of Lonnegan's numbers runners out of the money he was carrying, Lonnegan puts out a hit on them. When two of his underlings fail to kill Hooker, Lonnegan has the assassin Salino assigned to get rid of him.
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The Sting / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: Subverted. After Hooker pulls off a big con at the start of the film, he takes out a woman with a promise of showering her with luxuries during the evening (Specifically, that he will spend $50 on her). However, he blows the entire take on a single (rigged) roulette spin, and she leaves in disgust at the wasted evening.
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The Sting / int_f4d8ac92	type	The Assimilator
The Sting / int_f4d8ac92	comment	The Assimilator: Conventional example in Lonnegan's modus operandi, he expands his criminal empire by learning the trades and insights of an illegal business to eventually take it over.
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The Sting / int_f6667222	type	Inexplicable Cornered Escape
The Sting / int_f6667222	comment	Inexplicable Cornered Escape: Johnny flees from an armed thug sent by the vengeful Big Bad, running into an alley behind a diner, which presents him with a dead end. The gunman is only moments away from cornering and killing Johnny then and there. Apparently, adrenaline gave Johnny enough strength to lift a steel manhole cover, and escape into the sewer below.
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The Sting / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
The Sting / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: When Lonnegan is informed by Kelly that Shaw played him like a fiddle, his first intention is to kill them both right there on the train and get rid of the bodies. Floyd tries to talk some sense into him, because they are about to reach the station and there were other players on the table who could get suspicious.
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The Sting / int_f6b698ac	type	Complexity Addiction
The Sting / int_f6b698ac	comment	Complexity Addiction: Salino's plan to become a Love Interest to Hooker so she (and only she) can kill him. She starts it by posing as a waitress and could have killed him several times throughout the film, even while Hooker was sleeping, or allowed Lonnegan's goons to capture him at one point, and sure enough when she finally tries she is identified and shot, on an open street, by the bodyguard Gondorff secretly hired for Hooker. Partially justified though in that there were other witnesses to Hooker staying at her place, rendering assassination at that moment risky.
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The Sting / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
The Sting / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Both Hooker and Gondorff during the sting.
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The Sting / int_fc75f1cb	type	Detective Mole
The Sting / int_fc75f1cb	comment	Detective Mole: The "FBI agents" who assist Lieutenant Snyder are an integral part of the con.
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The Sting / int_fe5dda42	comment	Talent Double: Gondorff's hands doing card tricks before the poker game are actually those of technical adviser and professional magician John Scarne.
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