Comment COOL ✋ if you want to see Cool Hand Luke! Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iMynoLh0vNfKlmw.html

400,000 in 1936 is worth 8,541,000 in today’s money. Excellent reaction, loved this in the theater at 12.

The guy who played Luther, the one who is Robert Redford's friend, is the real-life father of James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader

$11,000 in 1936 is worth $234,875 today, $500,000 in 1936 is worth $10.6 million today

Jen, there's a bunch of good Redford films, including: * Three Days of the Condor (1975) -- spy drama * All the President's Men (1976) -- drama about Watergate (co-starring Dustin Hoffman) * The Natural (1984) -- baseball film All are very good... but I'd say "President's Men" is the very best. Enjoy!

One of the great things about this movie is how many little details you only notice on rewatches, since the movie is constantly "conning" the audience as well as the characters. Like when "Mrs. Hillard" sticks her head out the door while Hooker is talking to Salino in the hallway, at first we think it's just a joke about the lack of privacy. Only later finding out that small moment actually saved Hooker's life, and he had no idea how close he was to being dead that night if she hadn't seen his face. And Salino, totally professional, plays it cool. "Good night, Mrs. Hillard," with just a hint of annoyance that her opportunity's been blown and now she needs to wait until morning to kill him outside.

Charles Durning, who plays Snyder, was a wonderful actor. He was nominated for a beautifully portrayed guest part on NCIS, playing a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who suffers from delayed PTSD. Durning himself was a WWII vet who fought on D-Day and in the Battle of the Bulge.

JEN: You asked a couple of times in your The Sting reaction video, "How do you cheat in poker?" I was a professional card dealer for over 30 years. The answers are, to have a dealer be well-trained in manipulating the cards and setting up a deck to deal the winning & losing hands according to who the dealer wants to cheat or to mark the cards with a die that can be seen with tinted glasses or contacts so the cheating player wearing the tinted lenses can see what cards the player being cheated is holding & know what they are according to where the die is placed on the cards, or as in The Sting, the cheating player (Paul Newman) has his own cards that he switches with slight of hand skills or other ways of cheating I won't mention for the sake of brevity.

Jen, 11k in 1936 is equal (in terms of spending power) to about 235k today. Edit/Addition: Cool Hand Luke is a definite yes. Also Jen, there are 2 movies I would recommend if you want more Paul Newman. Paul plays the same character in both, but the movies were done years apart. As a young actor Paul starred with Jackie Gleason in The Hustler. Jackie plays the real life legend Minnesots Fats and Paul plays a young pool hustler named Fast Eddie Felson. They end up in the same pool room one night and that's all I will tell you. Years later Paul reprised Fast Eddie as an older guy who has been out of the game for some time, and he meets a brash young pool hustler played by Tom Cruise. The movie is the color of money. Both really strong films. Hope you give them a try and enjoy them.

Congratulations for finally discovering the finest heist/con movie ever made! More Robert Redford? There's so much. My recommendation is Three Days of the Condor, a thriller.

Because this movie followed so closely after Butch Cassidy, with that ending still fresh in everyone's mind, and the teamwork between the two being suggested as a rehash, everyone was fully expecting the end of the Sting to be the same as Butch Cassidy. They really set us up for the surprise.

If you like Redford on screen, you'll enjoy him in The Natural.

This is a great movie! Thank you for watching it! Yes! Watch Cool Hand Luke!

The card game scene on the train. Is one of the greatest scenes in motion picture history. From start to finish !

Hi, Jen. 2 fun facts: 1) Redford admitted that because he worked on film after film after film, he never saw THE STING (1973) until he rented it in 2004! 2) Robert Shaw wore a knee brace and wasn't acting when he was seen limping. He got hurt during production in a racquetball game. He apologized to director George Roy Hill who incorporated it into the Doyle Lonegan character as filming began. You stay classy, Jen.

The small black man who supplied the hall was played by Avon Long, who portrayed Sportin' Life in the Broadway "Porgy and Bess."

Robert Redford in "Jerimiah Johnson" or in "Three Days of the Condor". Two of his best that are very underrated and few if any have reacted to.

If you want more Paul.Newman...Thr Verdict is a spectacular film.

Wonderful film! Another movie from this period where Robert Redford looks great (perhaps even more so than here) is the "The Way We Were" co-starring Barbra Streisand. Like this it was a huge hit when it came out and Barbra was Oscar nominated. Despite her presence and the fact that the title song won the Oscar as well as being a number one hit for Babs the film isn't a musical but a bittersweet romance with a really fantastic look.

When Robert Redford and Paul Newman begin walking away and the Entertainer starts playing…. Iconic

The music is ragtime, specifically Scott Joplin, and was at least a decade past its heyday at the time this story takes place. Even so it was perfect for the film and sparked a renewed interest in that genre of music. As for it "not being a Butch Cassidy ending", the producers were mindful of that as well. Accordingly the last line of one of the trailers was "this time they just might make it".

Yes, the Scott Joplin music in the background is called "Ragtime". Joplin was the most famous and popular composer of ragtime, and history had forgotten him until this movie's soundtrack became a hit seller in '73. If the style sounds familiar, Randy Newman also gave us a ragtime score for 1981's "Ragtime": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mrqkarV9lbawknU.html

Phew! I'm glad you watched it ALL THE WAY to the end, Jen. I was afraid that you were going to have such flashbacks to Butch and Sundance that you would turn it off in protest before you saw the final reveal. 🤗 But you stuck with it to create another great reaction, Jenny Penny. ❤👍🙂

Every time I watch this movie, I want ice cream. Recently, I heard an ice cream truck outside. The tune playing was "The Entertainer". I started toward the door, only to realize that I'm too old to chase after the ice cream truck.

Amazing masterpiece The Sting directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw and Charles Durning. This film won 7 Oscars including best picture and best director by George Roy Hill. Thank you Jen great reaction excellent😊😊👍👍

If you want to check out another good Paul Newman film, I would recommend "Slap Shot" from 1977. He plays a player/coach of a struggling minor league hockey team who tries to use desperate tactics in order to keep the team alive. Some of it ends up with hilarious results.

Hi, Jen. With this classic about to mark its 50th anniversary, there are only about a half dozen Imdb credited cast members aside from Robert Redford who are still with us today. Among them are James Sloyan who got conned as the numbers runner Mottola soon after the film's start. Charles Dierkop and his "punchable face" played Lonnegan's lead bodyguard Floyd. Sally Kirkland played Hooker's stripper girlfriend Crystal. Joe Tornatore played the black gloved hit man. When Dimitra Arliss died ¹ this month in 2012 it made the national news here in the USA. She was Loretta Salino and the news flash was "The HIT GIRL from THE STING has died". Since you're among those who think Robert Redford is like an older Brad Pitt, you should check out Pitt in A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT (1992) which was directed by Redford and he narrates in the soundtrack. Their also is SPY GAME (2001) in which you can see Pitt and Redford on screen together. It gives "Bromance" a whole new meaning. You stay classy, Jen.

21:51 - There is actually an entire branch of security that does exactly this. I've done some work over the years on defending places against intrusions, but you would be surprised how far you can get with a clipboard, Otis Elevator jacket, and toolbox; or the classic is to go order a fireman's jacket online as very few people question letting the Fire Marshall in to "do a fire inspection". A lot of women actually can get very far in this field to by leveraging stereotypes by pretending they are the disorganized secretary or personal assistant. One of my colleagues has gotten keycards to hotel rooms, appointment/travel schedules, security pin codes, copies of confidential records, etc that way (people just have a tendency to want to help the 'nice assistant' with the 'mean boss').

Yes! 🤩👍 EDIT: This is my first first comment. 😁 EDIT 2: Yes, Cool Hand Luke (1967). 😎

Enjoyed your reaction to this excellent movie. One of my all-time favorite Robert Redford movies is "Jeremiah Johnson". I really think you would find him crush worthy in this one too.

Speaking of Robert Redford and Brad Pitt, you now have to watch Spy Game from 2001. Fantastic mentor/protegee espionage movie!

Did you notice that Paul Newman (Gondorff) only switched the four threes for the four jacks ? He had the six of hearts in both of his hands !

The guy who played Dole Lonagan was also the Man who played the Boat captain in Jaws .

Director George Roy Hill teamed up with Paul Newman one more time for one of the funniest, most underrated movies ever = Slap Shot from 1976. I highly recommend reacting to it: you might be the first! Great reaction!

A must watch for Robert Redford fans is; Jeremiah Johnson (mountain man) and Three Days Of The Condor (espionage, thriller).

This movie got me 'into' Ragtime, which later got me into New Orleans Jazz, *big-time!* That - as well as it being a really interesting and complex story - has made this a big favorite of mine! So cool to see a reaction (and a good one!) to it! Thanks!

Three Days of the Condor Is Redford at his best it is a thriller and you will love it. It has a Winter Soldier Feel to it. Jen you need this movie in your life it is amazing

Cool Hand Luke? Hells yeah!

The year before this film, 1972, Robert Redford starred in an amusing heist movie titled "The Hot Rock", it's not "The Sting", but it's a fun watch. That same year he also played a mid 1800s mountain man in "Jeremiah Johnson", a very beautiful film.

3:15 the comedian at the burlesque club is played by Leonard Barr. 2 years earlier he had a role in Diamonds Are Forever as Shady Tree, the Las Vegas comedian involved (fatally) in Blofeld's diamond smuggling ring.

The ragtime music is out of place for the time the story takes place in the 1930's. However it was because of the movie and it;s music that ragtime was revived. The Entertainer, the song you hear at the beginning, became at hit instrumental. Soon everyone who played piano bought the sheet music and had t learn to play it...even me, lol. My peers kept asking me to play it.From Wikipedia: "Composer and pianist Marvin Hamlisch's adaptation reached No. 3 on the Billboard pop chart and spent a week at No. 1 on the easy listening chart in 1974.[2] The Sting was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time." unfortunately several generations now think it's called "The Ice Cream Truck song" 😂

Cool. Great Reaction. Love this movie and really enjoyed how on the edge you were at the end, not knowing for sure that Newman & Redford were dead. Priceless. :) As for other movies, For Newman I would say Cool Hand Luke (67), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (58) and the Verdict (82); Redford in Three Days of the Condor (75), the Natural (84) and Sneakers (92); and for Shaw in the Taking of Pelham One Two Three (74), Robin & Marion (76) and Black Sunday (77)

Anything Robert Shaw touches is gold

Paul Newman is the one actor whom I will watch in ANY of his performances.

This is such an amazing film. This is the perfect type of film for you to react to. You should check out Sneakers. Not a perfect film like this one, but it's a lot of fun.

This movie helped revitalise the popularity of ragtime music

Two, probably underrated Newman movies that I love are Harper (1966) and The Drowning Pool (1975). "Gumshoe" detective stories featuring Newman as Lew Harper in both.

This is the kind of movie that makes you wonder why every movie doesn't have a great script and amazing actors in every role. Well, it really is hard to make good ones.

Since you mentioned Redford and Brad Pitt, you might check out the 2001 film Spy Game, which starred both of them. For Paul Newman, check out Slap Shot (a comedy) and Road to Perdition (not a comedy, starring Tom Hanks). Robert Shaw was good in Black Sunday and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974, (the original, not the remake in 2009)

Jen - You NEED to react to the original Leverage TV series. There's a big con in literally EVERY episode. You'll love it!

“The Way We Were “ Movie with “Robert Redford” and Barbra Streisand .. Good movie and “Robert “is gorgeous in it!! You’ll enjoy it and enjoy looking at your new crush Robert Redford!!

Big Newman fan. Three of my favorite movies of all are "The Sting", "Nobody's Fool" and "Slap Shot".

Great reaction Jen. You definitely want to do Cool Hand Luke but I also highly recommend the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor with Redford and Faye Dunaway and Max Von Sydow (The Exorcist). Nobody has reacted to this great film.

"Dick" was slang for "detective".

Jen hitting us with all the slang 🙂 , breakfast really is the best and at any time of day Jen FACTS ! Watching this after watching your top gun reactions earlier just makes me want you to watch the hustler and the color of money all the more Newman and cruise together is awesome, as is you plotting your life of crime if needed lol 👍hoping you're having a wonderful day Jen you deserve it

Money talks But it don't sing and dance And it don't walk . . . (Neil Diamond-Forever in Blue Jeans, 1979)

Redford? "The Natural"

Great reaction as always 😊😊😊but it was 500k 😮😮😮😮

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The Sting is greatness but Cool Hand Luke is epic!

So glad to see you react to this Jen! Check this out - the burlesque theater when Redford picks up his girl at the end, is actually the opera house set from the 1925 Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, and until it was demolished in 2014, was the oldest standing set in the world!

They're playing Mahjong which was a big deal in the 30s. It's a fun game. "The Sting" is one of those films with the perfect cast. It always amuses me that Gondorf calls himself Robert Shaw which is the name of the actor playing Lonnegan.

If Paul Newman is "one of your all-time crushes," as you say, have you ever checked out "The Road to Perdition," from 2002? It was Newman's last screen role, in a truly great film that somehow, inexplicably, fell through the cracks and got missed by a lot of people, despite having a loaded cast with Newman, Tom Hanks, Jude Law and Daniel Craig and being directed by the great Sam Mendes. It's a brilliant film and I'm constantly surprised at how many people missed it.

Before this movie the music of Scott Joplin who wrote all the ragtime music was largely forgotten. He died more than 50 years before. This movie brought his music back into the American consciousness where it has stayed. The 50th anniversary of the annual Scott Joplin music festival is this year.

☀ Fine reaction, Jen! 🌞 $11,000 in 1936 today worth $225,000+. Also, see the Newman classic comedy: SLAPSHOT!

I want to see Cool Hand Luke.

"This better be fake! Is this the plan?? Is this the plan??!!" I was laughing so hard...! (er... with you.) Good show Jen Murray...

This is a classic. One of the greatest. Everyone is in it.

Please watch "Cool Hand Luke" otherwise, "what we got here is a failure to communicate".

JEN IS BRUTAL. SHE RAN US OVER THE OTHER DAY, AND IT D0ES STING. QUEEN BEE JEN IS HARSH

It's fantastic to see someone else watching this movie for the first time. Hope you loved it.

*The diner where Redford is giving Lonnegan the tips, is the same shooting location as the diner from Back to the Future!

$400,000 in 1938 would equivalent to about $8.5 million today. This is one of my top 3 favorite movies. I'm so glad I came across your channel today! Paul & Robert have been my crushes for 40 years! What a great reaction to a great movie!

One of the greats! Excellent stuff Jen. Please put SPY GAME (2001) on your list - it has an older Robert Redford (still handsome and charming) and his lookalike Brad Pitt! It has twists and romance and intrigue, and is somewhat underseen/underrated imo - definitely up your street I think.

What a great classic and I really enjoyed that time with you. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work!

Yes! to "Cool Hand Luke "

Some of my other fav's of Robert Redford (besides this movie): Barefoot In The Park (comedy), Three Days Of The Condor (action) and The Way We Were (romance) :)

Just watched Cool Hand Luke again...great movie. Live 'The Sting'.

My family and I were in a movie theater near Franklin, Pa. when this movie first came out. This was before the members of the audience knew the twist ending. I and my family liked to stay until the actual end of a movie, but a lot of people in the audience got up and started to leave when Paul Newman and Robert Redford's characters got shot. They ended up running back into the theater. It was so hilarious. Thanks for the fun reaction to a great film.

One of the greatest movies ever made. May you never go tired of it!

*Im sure this has already been mentioned in the comments, but Hooker’s partner in the opening, Luther, was played by Robert Earl Jones, the father of James Earl! A note about the ragtime soundtrack- the writer had many arguments with the director about it, because it was more a turn-of-the-century thing, it wasn’t really popular in the 30’s. The director replied: “you’re one of maybe 10 people who will know that and be bothered by it” 😂

0:41 When I hear this music all I can really see is Tony Knowles fluking a blue into the middle pocket and Tony Meo with a resigned smile on his face. And Kirk Stevens in a fedora.

The Comedian in the Burlesque theater was Dean Martin's uncle, Leonard Barr..Used to come on to The tonight show, w/Johnny Carson back in the day..Very funny guy.

Hi Jen, Robert Redford loved to play characters that have a dark side to them. But what you said about Redford and Pitt. You must see "A River Runs Through It" with Brad Pitt, directed by Robert Redford. I'm sure Redford would have played the Pitt's part if he had been younger. When you see it you'll understand why I said that. Aside from all that its a really beautiful film. Greetings and love from Western Australia. PS. The Sting is film greatness.

For more Robert Shaw, *The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3* is a definite must!

I went back to check; the phone call said “place it on Lucky Dan”

When I was 11 or 12 my parents were looking to buy a house in a town called Rifle, Colorado. We had breakfast in a diner that had some of the best pancakes I ever had. I was very hungry so I ordered a 3-stack. The pancakes were huge. This was a breakfast made for a grown man who expected to be working all day long, not a preteen boy who was quite small for his age. But as I said, they were very good and I was very hungry and I ended up cleaning my plate. This impressed the waitress and she asked if I had put it in my "wooden leg" so I took it off to show here it contained no trace of pancakes. Thing is, she had no idea I was actually an amputee. The look on her face is something I have treasured ever since. Sadly, the Rifle deal never went through so we didn't ever go back to Rifle. I hope that diner is still there, because they had some great food. But this was in the early 80's, so I doubt the Diner is the same, even if it does still exist.

I Recommend this one a while back! Thank you Jen! Of course I'm not going to take all the credit, but you're welcome everyone. (Joking) Jen you are very intuitive, your selections are the best of any other reactor on KZfaq. I've said it before and I'll say it again, HERE for EVERY REACTION! And yes Jen 'Cool Hand Luke is a must! One of Newman's greatest roles. And Jen...you can hit me with your purse anytime....Eric

Something I found amusing. Jen didn’t know (she is quite young I guess) that for years Robert Redford was the measuring stick for handsome. The expression “he’s no Robert Redford” was spoken in not only in many TV shows but in real life as well. Over the last 20 years or so Brad Pitt (to whom she compared him to) has been that guy.

Nice Reaction To One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's

At the 1974 Academy Awards show, Elizabeth Taylor was the presenter for Best Picture of 1973. When she opened the envelope, she giggled and said "I am so glad. The winner is The Sting." Then she giggled again. I think she like it.

I love how Lonigan thinks Shaw and Kelly are dead, while Snider thinks Gondorf and Hooker are dead. PERFECT! I totally thought the Feds were real the first time I saw this - yeah, WE got stung! Love this flick!

'The Way We Were' with Barbara Streisand is a movie often suggested when people put forward the hansom Robert Redford. You might check it out. However, I love 'The Sting!' It's #25 in my top 250. And, I had a very, very good time in your great react. Thank You very much!

"When I'm an old lady I'm gonna beat people with my pocketbook." Why wait? 😂

I Think 🤔 That Paul Newman And Robert Redford Always Wanted To Do A 3rd Movie 🎭🎬🎥🎞️📽️🎟️🎟️🍿🍿🍫🍫🥤🥤 Together ( 1st Movie Being 'Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid'( 1969 )) But, Unfortunately, A Great Script, Never Came Along. Being That 'The Sting'( 1973 ) Won The Academy Award 🏆 For Best Director ( George Roy Hill )( The Same Man, That Directed 'Sundance'( 1969 ), And 'The Sting'( 1973 ), Won The Academy Award For Best Picture! 🏆 So, I Guess We Will Have To Be Content 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️, With These 2 Excellent 👍 Movies!

$400,000 in the1930's is worth about $7.1 millions today. Great reaction (again) So fun to watch.

"I really need to go eat breakfast at a diner...like tonight." ~ Jen Murray, 2023

The movie draws its historical research from a non-fiction book about the con artists of the 1920s and 30s. The book's called "The Long Con" or "The Big Con" if I recall correctly. It's fascinating to read about. The horse-racing con in the movie was a completely real scheme that con artists played, although not usually as a one-off con of a single mark: a fake betting parlor like in the movie would basically be open permanently, conning one mark after another. The funniest thing I recall from the book is that the professional con artists were so good they could take the mark again-- after the "the horse is going to run second" move, the two con artists would make a big show of blaming each other for the "mistake" and as they got heated the mark would step in trying to be the peacemaker: "Hey guys, calm down, it was just a mistake, we'll try again and get it right." According to the book they could sometimes take the same mark three or even four times, having something different appear to go wrong each time, before he wised up and got out.

My favorite Redford is The Natural, and I'm not even a baseball fan...I think Jen would love it!

You should read the book The Big Con by David Maurer. It’s by a linguist who was interested in criminal slang so he got friendly with the con men, but it ended up being a description of all the cons at this time period (well, the 1940’s). The Sting drew heavily from the book using many of the featured characters in the book as names in the film.