Title: The Sting
Content:  The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his 1940 book The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man. The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the "play" and takes 
Title: The Sting (1992 film)
Content:  The Sting is a 1992 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Nico Wong and starring Andy Lau, Rosamund Kwan, Simon Lui and Bowie Lam.
Title: The Sting II
Content:  The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy film and a sequel to The Sting, again written by David S. Ward. It was directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan and stars an entirely original cast including Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr, Karl Malden and Oliver Reed.
Title: The Sting
Content:  a resurgence of interest in Joplin's work. Released on Christmas Day of 1973, The Sting was a massive critical and commercial success and was hugely successful at the 46th Academy Awards, being nominated for ten Oscars and winning seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Writing (Original Screenplay); Redford was also nominated for Best Actor. The film also reignited Newman's career after a series of big screen flops. Regarded as having one of the best screenplays ever written, in 2005, The Sting was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
Title: The Sting
Content:  that I opt to go along with it. One forgives its unrelenting efforts to charm, if only because The Sting itself is a kind of con game, devoid of the poetic aspirations that weighed down Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Variety wrote, "George Roy Hill's outstanding direction of David S. Ward's finely-crafted story of multiple deception and surprise ending will delight both mass and class audiences. Extremely handsome production values and a great supporting cast round out the virtues." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "an unalloyed delight, the kind of pure entertainment film that's all the more welcome for having become such a rarity." Pauline Kael of The New Yorker was less enthusiastic, 
Title: The Sting (1992 film)
Content: Andy Lau as Simon Tam ; Rosamund Kwan as Yvonne ; Simon Lui as Joe ; Bowie Lam as Inspector Michael Lee ; Chin Ho ; Shing Fui-On ; Wai Kei-shun ; Lo Hung ; Pau Fong as Simon's mentor ; Henry Fong ; Michael Dinga ; Mandy Chan as bald killer ; Tsang Kan-wing as Tsang ; Hon Ping ; Leung Biu-ching ; Raymond Tsang ; Bill Lung as Biu ; Tse Wai-kit as triad member ; Chun Kwai-po as monk ; Chow Kam-kong ; Chan Sek ; Ng Kwok-kin as policeman ; Jacky Cheung Chun-hung ; Wong Chi-keung ; Choi Kwok-keung as granny assassin ; So Wai-nam ; Lam Kwok-kit ; Leung Kei-hei as thug ; Lee Chuen-hau as thug ; Lui Siu-ming ; Huang Kai-sen 
Title: The Sting (musical)
Content:  The Sting is a musical thriller with a book by Bob Martin and music and lyrics by Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis, and Harry Connick Jr., based on the 1973 film The Sting.
Title: The Sting
Content:  that the film "is meant to be roguishly charming entertainment, and that's how most of the audience takes it, but I found it visually claustrophobic, and totally mechanical. It creeps cranking on, section after section, and it doesn't have a good spirit." She also noted that "the absence of women really is felt as a lack in this movie." John Simon wrote that The Sting as a comedy-thriller "works endearingly without a hitch". In 2005, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay #39 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written.
Title: Sting of Death
Content:  Sting of Death is a 1965 American science fiction horror film directed by William Grefé, written by Al Dempsey, and starring Joe Morrison, Valerie Hawkins, Deanna Lund, John Vella, and Jack Nagle. Its plot concerns five female college students who head to the Florida Everglades for a holiday, but instead of fun in the sun, run into trouble with a mutated, bloodthirsty, and quite deadly jellyfish-man-monster. Neil Sedaka's pop dance song "Do the Jellyfish" is featured on the film's soundtrack. Sting of Death was paired on a double bill with the Grefé film Death Curse of Tartu (1966).
Title: The Sting
Content:  Screenwriter David S. Ward has said in an interviews that he was inspired to write The Sting while doing research on pickpockets, saying "Since I had never seen a film about a confidence man before, I said I gotta do this." Daniel Eagan explained: "One key to plots about con men is that film goers want to feel they are in on the trick. They don't have to know how a scheme works, and they don't mind a twist or two, but it's important for the story to feature clearly recognizable 'good' and 'bad' characters." It took a year for Ward to correctly adjust this aspect of the script and to figure out how much 

Question: Who was the director of The Sting?
Answer: George Roy Hill.