This crafty re-teaming of Paul Newman and Robert Redford (from Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid) drew seven Oscars and worldwide queues. The Thirties' settings, in the hands of cameraman Robert Surtees, costume designer Edith Head and art director Henry Bumstead, veterans all, vividly recreate conditions of the period, and the banteringly humorous playing of the stars, as they attempt to relieve big-time shark Robert Shaw of his money, is immensely winning. The film also revived the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, arranged here by Marvin Hamlisch. Amusing, exciting, ingeniously plotted and richly entertaining. Incidentally, the close-ups in the poker game are not of Paul Newman's hands but those of card expert John Scarne.

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