10 Best Con Man Movies

No one was expecting a repairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford with director George Roy Hill would reach the critical and commercial success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but The Sting surpassed such expectations, taking home seven Academy Awards.

And in a sense, it's a spiritual sequel to their previous film - one could imagine the aged outlaws having survived on the fringes of the law, further drawn out of society by corruption and run down by the system, desperate to make a buck at "the big con". And their con set up against crime boss Doyle Lonnergan is certainly complicated. We even think it's come unspoiled with a gunshot until...

The film's script had an innate understanding about what appealed to con games - the notion that audience was in on it, only to pull the wool over their eyes once more. Like handing someone a life preserver only to tell them later it was filled with cement.