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In 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners Luther Coleman and Joe Erie con $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim in Joliet, Illinois. Hooker loses his share of the con on a rigged roulette game, while Luther, buoyed by the windfall, decides to retire.
Based on the 1973 Academy Award-winning film, The Sting tells the tale of a pair of con men, small town grifter Johnny Hooker and big-time hustler Henry Gondorff (Harry Connick, Jr.), who plot to bring down the city's most corrupt racketeer. The Sting takes you back to an era where jazz reigns, the stakes are high, and the dice are always loaded.
The Sting II is a 1983 American comedy film and a sequel to The Sting, ... Henry Gondorff has become Fargo Gondorff, and Johnny Hooker has become Jake Hooker.
John Archibald Dortmunder Peter Yates: 1973 The Sting: Johnny Hooker George Roy Hill: The Way We Were: Hubbell Gardiner Sydney Pollack: 1974 The Great Gatsby: Jay Gatsby: Jack Clayton: 1975 Three Days of the Condor: Joseph Turner / The Condor Sydney Pollack: The Great Waldo Pepper: Waldo Pepper George Roy Hill: 1976 All the President's Men: Bob ...
He had a brief role in The Sting, appropriately as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard". Barr's comedic schtick ...
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper , he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit .
Sting Fan Club presale will go on sale Feb. 11 at 10 a.m. Tickets for the general public will go on sale on Friday Feb. 14 at 10 a.m. Sign up on Ticketmaster. The Billy Joel-Sting concert ticket cost:
Charles Edward Durning (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012) was an American actor who appeared in over 200 movies, television shows and plays. [2] Durning's best-known films include The Sting (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), The Muppet Movie (1979), True Confessions (1981), Tootsie (1982), Dick Tracy (1990), and O Brother, Where Art Thou?