The 1973 American caper film The Sting was based on actual con games played out by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff, which were chronicled by David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of ...
In the classic 1973 movie The Sting, con men extraordinaire played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford hatch a plan to take down a fearsome mob boss played by Robert Shaw in a high-stakes poker game.