Set in Chicago and smartly written, ‘The Sting’ endures 50 years after its blockbuster release

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Set in Chicago and smartly written, ‘The Sting’ endures 50 years after its blockbuster release

Actors Paul Newman (left) and Robert Redford speak to “The Sting” director George Roy Hill during a break from filming at Chicago’s Central Station on April 10, 1973. Though the movie was set in Chicago, most of it was shot in and around Hollywood. Henry Herr Gill/Chicago Daily News Before we salute “The Sting” as one of the most acclaimed and popular and enduring and exquisitely crafted blockbusters of all time, let’s get the Poker Quibbles an…