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Where was The Sting filmed?

1973 film, directed by George Roy Hill.

  • Santa Monica

The story is set in Chicago, about 1,755 miles (2,825 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Chicago
Filmed in
Santa Monica
Distance
About 1,755 miles (2,825 km) between Chicago and the nearest filming location.
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About The Sting

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Released
1973
Director
George Roy Hill
Cast
Paul NewmanRobert RedfordRobert ShawCharles DurningRay WalstonEileen BrennanHarold GouldDana ElcarSally KirklandJack Kehoe
Genre
HeistBuddyComedyDrama
Awards
Academy Award for Best Picture; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Film Editing; Academy Award for Best Writing and 6 more

In September 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners, Luther Coleman and Joe Erie, con US$11,000 in cash (equivalent to $0.2 million in 2025) from a mark in Joliet, Illinois.

Corrupt Joliet police lieutenant William Snyder confronts Hooker, revealing their mark was a courier for vicious Irish-American crime boss Doyle Lonnegan.

Snyder and Lonnegan's men track Hooker to Chicago; Gondorff warns Hooker that if either finds him, the con will have to be called off.

Famous lines from The Sting

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • All of it.Hooker
  • Turn it off.Henry
  • Are you sober?Hooker
  • What's your hurry?Henry
  • I'll get him anyway.Hooker

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