FILM 1183: THE STING
TRIVIA: The movie was filmed on the
backlot of Universal studios and the diner in which Hooker meets Lonnegan is
the same diner interior used in Back to the
Future (1985) in which Marty McFly first meets his father and calls
Doc Brown.
The rigged Black 22 at the roulette
wheel, where Hooker loses the bet at the beginning of the movie, is the same
spot that Rick Blaine uses for both Captain Renault and the Bulgarian couple to
set them up to win in Casablanca.
Robert Shaw injured his
knee and incorporated the resulting limp into his performance. According to
"You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again" by Julia Phillips, Shaw
split all the ligaments in his knee after slipping on a wet handball court at
the Beverly Hills Hotel a week before filming started. He had to wear a leg
brace during production which was kept hidden under the wide 1930s style
trousers he wore.
Edith Head won her 8th and
final Best Costume Design Academy Award for this film. "Just
imagine," she said during her acceptance speech. "Dressing the two
handsomest men in the world and then getting this."
The gin that Paul Newman uses in
the train scenes is Gordon's Gin, the same gin that Humphrey Bogart drinks on
The African Queen.
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