This crime caper caught the zeitgeist in the early-'70s - 1973 was a very bleak turning-point hippy year marked by Foreman-Frazier, memorable soccer upsets: England v Poland and Leeds v Sunderland/A. C. Milan not to mention Peckinpah's ''Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''. American thespian superstars: blue-eyed Paul Newman and blond Robert Redford have fun and show tremendous chemistry and streetsmarts. The '30s Chicago settings and props are evocative. Gruff British actor, Robert Shaw (''Young Winston''(1972) and ''Jaws'' (1978)) is menacing as the ''mark''. London's Time Out Film Guide says that it is '..all a bit soulless..' but I think it is very entertaining.
Review of The Sting
