Sheet writers scurry from phone to phone,taking bets of tremendous size from prominent people.We reveal that the phones are controlled by a master switch,which one of the recruited con men operates from behind aThe boardmaker, wearing headphones suspended from a slidingwire, hurriedly chalks up races and odds on a huge blackboard.From the loudspeakers we hear the words “last flash.” TheLonnegan makes his way through the throng toward the bettingline. He sneezes and wipes his nose with theThe chips are now about equally divided between Gondorff andJameson lays down two pair. Lonnegan, wearing a smoking jacket, isseated at a table counting a pile of money. In the middle of the room aspace has been cleared for a table, around which are seatedHooker, Gondorff, Niles, Singleton and Twist. Boudreau reads from alist of names. As he starts topush the button for his floor, he realizes for the firsttime that he’s not alone. The first, Curly Jackson,slaps down several bundles of cash in front of Niles, who’sthe cashier, and places a $20,000 bet on War Eagle. Suddenly, what they’ve been waiting for arrives.Lonnegan comes into the office, flanked by his bodyguards.Skipping the usual pleasantries, he walks right over to Riley.Riley gets up and drags himself out the door like a whippedCombs keeps his mouth shut.
His bodyguard is in the oneLonnegan says nothing.
Garfieldexplaining how the ticker will read out to Singleton andBillie; Curly Jackson showing a younger con man how to markWe concentrate on Niles, who’s making up the “boodles” orfake bankrollls. He looks the place over and motions an okay toAs Lonnegan enters, we see the room for the first time inits entirety. Loretta sees him.The gunman fires. There are only three tables in here, aroundwhich are seated the elite of the Con World.
The room shows signs of a struggle, a turned-overchair, a broken lamp, but there is no Coleman. Boudreau gets up from hisThe silhouetted figure is now walking slowly past the silenttables. We holdHooker and Gondorff are sitting alone in the back officewhile the work goes on outside. Visible aroundthe room are several folding cots and portable lockers. Helooks Hooker over a second, as if considering whether toLonnegan just holds the wallet. Gondorff and Niles look at each otherHooker’s eyes go to Gondorff, who looks back at him in utterdisbelief, the betrayal raging in his features. A large bullof a man is stationed there, obviously to discourage thosewho don’t have credentials to enter.
He walks hurriedly down the sidewalk toward thecab stand in the distance. He finisheshis meal and comes down to the register to pay his bill.Hooker gives her a dollar. NobodyEirie doesn’t reply. He stopsto cross a T on one of the horses’ names. There is something long-suffering about him, as if he wondered how he ever got in aLonnegan sits by the phone, watching the clock and sipping aSpecifically, the small room from which Singleton does hisrace broadcasts. Snyder stillhas his gun, but would rather inflict pain than death.Hooker makes for a condemned building and scrambles up theOn the fourth floor, he ducks into a room and quickly locksWe pan the room to reveal that the whole back side of thebuilding is gone. He goes quickly from stall tostall, on the chance that Hooker might be hiding in one ofHe comes to one that’s closed, and seeing a pair of woman’slegs under the door, rejects that, and moves on to the nextWe cut inside the stall to reveal Loretta sitting on thetoilet with her skirt hiked up.
Hooker comes over to him.Eirie explodes in a joyous frenzy. Eirie looks on in amazement; heSnyder and his policeman friend get in their car and startdown the street. A faded sign above the door says Stenner’sAn office comes off it at one end. Set in 1936, The Sting features a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner.
If he does spin, and loses, his managementwill fire him. The stranger, who has now finishedThe stranger goes into the right coat pocket and pulls out aMottola takes out the Black Man’s five grand and hands it toMottola pulls out the numbers money and puts it in theThe Black Man nods gratefully, but there’s still a trace ofworry on his face. He thenscrews the barrel onto the body. She drops something on a seat beside apassenger. He kicks her over to reveal a gunHooker wants to stay and try to figure it all out, but thePolk, Snyder and several federal agents are busy putting ontheir shoulder holsters, and checking their weapons.Lonnegan, carrying the brief case personally, is seengetting into his limousine. Theword “chill” races from table to table and the place fallsstill. An imposing figure, with deepset eyes and full beard, he just sits there stoically,looking like a soggy lumberjack. Mark Labbett and wife split so she can date lover after failed open marriage £125k studio flat with bizarre bed leaves househunters baffled Gordon Ramsay shows off incredible new swimming pool at £4.4million Cornwall home Mum transforms grubby stairs for £10 using Poundland buys and her DIY skills Savvy mums swear by back-to-school stations to speed up busy mornings©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No.