My all time favorite movie. When I was a preteen I watched it every time a major network reran it. Once I made my family suffer through me taping the audio on a cassette recorder. I played that tape for years, over and over again until I wore it out.
To this day, I have always had some recorded version of it, from VHS, to DVD, to stored on my iPad. I play it when I want something fun and clever to watch.
Henry Gondorff, from “Nice to meet you kid. You’re a real horse’s ass” to, by the end, the only person not to have been conned.
Leverage has all kinds of little shout outs to The Sting. Here’s just one of them:
The Sting’s Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman) plays the hook against their mark, humiliates him in one big play to draw him in to the bigger con. He annoys the mark, Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), enough that he sets Henry up to take a fall with a hand of four 3’s, but Henry came prepared with a few extra Jacks stashed on him somewhere.
In Leverage, with a little help from the rest of the crew, Nate hooks their mark with a similar move, four 9′s beat by 4 Jacks.
Hearseeno 