The feature film starring
Paul Newman , Robert Redford
Superstars Newman and Redford are successfully teamed up once again in this exuberant Oscar-winning story of gangsters and deception set in Chicago during the 30s. To the accompaniment of Scott Joplin 's ragtime music, the pair set out to avenge the murder of a fellow con artist by making racketeer Doyle Lonnegan the victim of the most elaborate and outrageous confidence trick of all time!
Screenplay by DAVID s. WARD
Produced by TONY BILL , MICHAEL and JULIA PHILLIPS
Directed by GEORGE ROY HILL
(First showing on British television) Films: pages 16-17