The Sting II

"The con is on... place your bets!"

1983 1h 42m EN

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4.7

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10%

ROTTEN

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4.9

IMDB

★4.7TMDB · 53🥫10%Rotten Tomatoes★4.9IMDB · 2,579

ComedyCrime

Synopsis

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Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

“The con is on... place your bets!”

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Cast

Jackie Gleason
Fargo Gondorff
Mac Davis
Jake Hooker
Teri Garr
Veronica
Karl Malden
Gus Macalinski
Oliver Reed
Lonnegan
Bert Remsen
Kid Colors
Kathalina Veniero
Blonde with Kid Colors
José Pérez
Carlos (Lonnegan's Guard)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writers: David S. Ward, Dean Riesner
Languages: French, English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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43 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, English.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "The Sting Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jeremy Kagan, shot by Wilmer Butler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Lalo Schifrin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis and Teri Garr carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "The con is on... place your bets!".

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8 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0086370 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Jeremy Kagan directs. Wilmer Butler behind the camera. Lalo Schifrin scores. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in French, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

143 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: French, English.
3Part of the "The Sting Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4Directed by Jeremy Kagan, shot by Wilmer Butler. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Lalo Schifrin. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis and Teri Garr carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "The con is on... place your bets!".
8IMDB entry: tt0086370 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Only 53 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "boxer", "con man", "sequel", "brooklyn, new york city".

The technical file

Cinematography: Wilmer Butler
Original score: Lalo Schifrin
Stunt coordinator: Ron Stein
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Status: Released
Box office: $6,347,072
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: The Sting II (1983)
Rotten Tomatoes: 10% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 4.9/10 · 2,579 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total

Part of

The Sting Collection

Set in the 1930's this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Also by

Jeremy Kagan

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Community reviews

What people are saying

Filipe Manuel Neto2023-09-13
★ 2/10
We can almost say that any similarity with the first “Sting” is a pure coincidence. I loved the first film, but when I saw that there had been a sequel, I was suspicious: normally, they are always much weaker than the originals. And so it was! This film is nothing more than a pale shadow of its predecessor. It attempts to follow up the story of the con artists from the first film, with a script set four to five years later, however it is a much weaker, disjointed, conventional and predictable story. It's not really worth summarizing: suffice it to say that the crooks are back to avenge a comrade who was killed. The cast is completely different from the original film, and that was one of the first red flags for me, even before the start. If the first film was a nest of first-rate artists like Robert Shaw, Robert Redford or Paul Newman, this film relies on weaker actors because the first ones didn't want to return to the project. And my red flags raised higher when I saw that it was another director, Jeremy Kagan. I don't know him, but I wasn't impressed with his work here. When we talk about the actors, the best we have is Jackie Gleason. He's not great, but he does a good job, with commitment and some talent, that deserves a very positive note. Mac Davis is much less successful, not going much beyond average. The same can be said of Karl Malden and Teri Garr, who do not shine in their roles. It's very little and doesn't meet the expectations at all, especially those of the public who saw the original film. Technically, the film shines due to its cinematography, good color and initial credits, which are a nod to the original film. This was very enjoyable and gave the film a really nice family comedy feel. I also liked most of the sets and costumes, as well as the period recreation. The problem is the soundtrack. If the first film used intelligently a series of melodies by Scott Joplin, one of the great composers in vogue at the time, this film was completely unable to do a similar exercise. However, the original soundtrack made by Lalo Schiffrin was good enough to deserve an Oscar nomination. The only nomination, which is still another bad note if we consider that the first film was nominated ten times and “cleaned” the auditorium by taking seven statuettes.

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