Bert Remsen, Bob Minor, Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis play Gondorff and Hooker (the characters made famous by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting), two con artists who return for more action when rival gangs try to ou...( read more  read more... )t-con each other. This time, the fix is on a boxing match. Teri Garr, Karl Malden and Oliver Reed (in the role played by Robert Shaw in the original) provide nice support in this caper film that's a worthy follow-up to the original.

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PG, 102 min.

Directed by: Jeremy Kagan

Release Date: February 18, 1983

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DVD Release Date: August 3, 2004

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  • October 11, 2008
    Here's a movie that has no right to work, but somehow it does. Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis play the characters made famous by Paul Newman and Robert Redford...and yet, they don't. While their characters share the same last names, and obviously are meant to be the same characters...( read more), they all have different first names. I'm not sure what the intention was, but there you have it. When one of their old con gang is murdered by a mobster (same movitation from the first movie), they reuinte their gang to take him for everything he's worth. They are aided and hampered by the mobster they took for $500,000 years before. The individual performances by the two leads are fine enough, but they have none of the natural chemistry shared by Newman and Redford. Oliver Reed takes over for Robert Shaw as the Chicago banker they originally ripped off, and he has a certain fun with his role as the mystery manipulator of many of the characters. Karl Malden is the new mark, and he gives a good performance as the unknowing target of the con men's plan. Teri Garr is wooden as a 2x4 as Davis' love interest, and the lone woman in the con gang. Many people see this as blasphemy to the original, but while it is not even close to being in the same league as the first film, it's still an enjoyable con game, with its own share of twists and turns. Most of them predictable, but there are a couple of "didn't see that coming" moments. An interseting little distraction, and not nearly the cinematic afterbirth its been made out to be.
  • November 20, 2008
    Why was this movie made? Gleason & Davis are no Redford and Newman....
  • October 14, 2008
    good but not as good as the first!
  • July 17, 2007
    It was not as good as the first, but it still had the twist in it, plus had a very well put together cast.
  • May 9, 2007
    this was a good sequal
  • March 27, 2007
    If Jackie Gleason is in it, then I will endeavor to find this film, his Smokey And the Bandit films were hilarious.
  • February 5, 2007
    Not as good as the first, but entertaining none the less
  • February 2, 2007
    Did not need a sequel
  • December 10, 2006
    Weak movie. VERY WEAK

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  • rayman0071
    March 12, 2007
    A disgrace. Jackie Gleason and Mac Davis???
    What producer thought of casting Ralph Kramden and a country singer to do a sequel not the less a silly looking blonde in one of the worst films of 1982.

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