Duo premium
In 1973, the director George Roy Hill does it again with his sexy tandem of ultra guys of Butch Cassidy and the Kid, and hits the jackpot of the century: filmed for 7.5 million dollars, The Sting (the title in original version) yields 156! The international class of Robert Redford and of Paul Newman is no stranger to this masterstroke. These two make a pair of nice tricksters dressed to the nines. George Clooney et Brad Pitt will be their worthy heirs in Ocean’s Eleven, en 2001.
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The success of this pure entertainment is also due to its cult music, hailed by one of the seven Oscars won by the film. The Entertainer, composed by Scott Joplin (1902) and adapted by Marvin Hamlischis, without doubt, the most famous ragtime of all time.
Caramboil goldsmiths
To avenge the death of their mentor, Luther, assassinated by the minions of a boss, in Chicago in the 1930s, Hooker and Gondorff develop a brilliant plan to bring down the godfather: rigging, live, the results of a race horse racing. Incredible… but true, since the scenario is inspired by the trick called Department storeimagined in 1914 by the brothers Charley et Fred Gondorff.
The scam, Sunday October 27 at 9:00 p.m. on Arte
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