Country: USA
Year: 1973
Duration: 129'
The mid-1930s. In a town in Illinois, three tricksters fleece a dupe without realizing that he is a runner for a gangster, who will get his revenge by killing one of them and forcing the leader of the gang, Johnny Hooker, to hide out in Chicago with the scam king, Coleman. There, the two of them set up an infallible plan to get even the score with the boss. One of the greatest successes of the 1970s, a paeon to intelligence over greed, and a fantastic reconstruction of the Depression era, with ragtime music (historically dubious but which became famous), studio reconstructions and references to the cinema that recounted it. Once again together after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Newman and Redford in the most famous roles of their careers and Hill establishes himself as the perfect director for the Hollywood production machine. A plethora of Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Set Direction, Best Costume Design, and Best Music Adaptation.
Biography
film director
George Roy Hill
(Minneapolis, USA, 1921 – New York, USA, 2002) studied music at Yale University and debuted in television during the mid-1950s and in film in the early ‘60s, specializing in TV adaptations of Broadway shows. After the success of the comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie, he became one of Hollywood’s most important directors thanks to the success of two films starring the duo Paul Newman-Robert Redford: the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which won four Oscars, and, above all, the comedy The Sting, which won a total of seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. He worked again with Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper, after which, over the course of the ‘80s, he slowly left the ranks of Hollywood’s major directors.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kraft Television Theatre (tv, 1954-1956), Lux Video Theatre (tv, 1955), The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (tv, 1956-1957), Playhouse 90 (tv, 1957-1959), Period of Adjustment (Rodaggio matrimoniale, 1962), Toys in the Attic (La porta dei sogni, 1963), The World of Henry Orient (La vita privata di Henry Orient, 1964), Hawaii (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie, 1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Butch Cassidy, 1969), Slaughterhouse-Five (Mattatoio 5, 1972), The Sting (La stangata, 1973), The Great Waldo Pepper (Il temerario, 1975), Slap Shot (Colpo secco, 1977), A Little Romance (Una piccola storia d’amore, 1979), The World According to Garp (Il mondo secondo Garp, 1982), The Little Drummer Girl (La tamburina, 1984), Funny Farm (L’allegra fattoria, 1988).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: George Roy Hill. SCREENPLAY: David S. Ward. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Surtees. EDITING: William Reynolds. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Henry Bumstead, Emil Kuri, James W. Payne. COSTUME DESIGN: Edith Head. MUSIC: Marvin Hamlisch. CAST: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould. PRODUCTION: Tony Bill, Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips for Universal Pictures.
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