The Sting 1973 Card Trick Scene Revealed-Tutorial

I hope you enjoy the video. I believe I left out the one handed cut but its a fairly simple move, which I'll probably cover in the future.

[ysengrimus]

Thank you for the demonstration. To me, it was magic. To my children, it was digital special effects. To you, it is competence. Bravo.

[jamesweekley]

I loved that movie. The ending was a perfect sting, pulled on the movie audience.

[darrenlanismith]

Never mind how he did the pre-game card tricks. Show us how Newman converted four threes to four jacks while blowing his nose. :)

[Kingfisher]

The biggest trick was teaching a Martian to call horse races.

[lawoftheuniverse]

Thanks for Explaining This Trick...I always wondered how it was done... :)

[jimslancio]

The best part of that scene is the brief moment where both hands disappear from the table surface, so they can switch between Paul Newman and the professional card wrangler.

[pbabuik]

I know I'm nit picking, but the cards he used were Tally Ho fans . To be fair however, they're both made by the United States playing card company in Kentucky

[daveyork]

The Black guy killed in the film is the father of James Earl Jones (voice of Darth Vader)

[mathewm]

...Easy. During filming, Paul Newman had his arms behind him while John Scarne did the shuffle while watching a monitor.

[mykelengieza]

i hope you are trying to make it obvious...because it was easy to see how you were second card dealing and keeping the ace on top....you could get seriously messed up if this is actually how good you are... ive been playing poker for over 40

[wdarr]

Well, guess you messed stuff up here, leading to you really grossly underestimating the difficulty of the moves and the dexterity shown here.
The second false cut is the "Fancy blind cut No 1" from Erdnase. It is more complicated than the cut you explain (you need to throw the upper portion a bit into the air in order to be able to remove the lower portion in two packets...), but not too hard.

Looking at it from a perspective of difficulty, the easiest thing is the false cut you explained.
Then the second deal (I am not sure whether Scarne really does a push-off here, however ...).
Followed by the Erdnase fancy blind cut.
The one-handed cut you left out is by far the hardest thing done in this video. You probably think it is a simple Charlier Cut. It is not. It is the "Erdnase Shift, One hand" also by Erdnase.

[orvillehill]

Hey kid, you should get the Brad Burt training videos. You will find cards easier to handle. If anyone is acquainted with Brad Burt, see if he will make his teaching series available again. Come on Brad...

[georgemillward]

You should not be attempting to explain anyone else's if you can't do it yourself. Also there were two professional card men who did this sequence, John Scarne and George Millward.

[rocko]

I give you an A for effort, but you got most of it wrong.
You got one of the card cutting wrong.
"Second dealing" is not pushing 2 cards off and taking the lower card with your finger. It's pivoting the top card, then using your thumb to pull the exposed corner of the 2nd card off the deck.

[lavendervideos]

Interesting! I always kinda wondered about this scene.

[robertgift]

Thank you. But how did he change the four 3s into four Jacks.

[jimwheely]

I just watched the movie. It was predictable. The love interest seemed like filler. He shows up at th assassins room, like what, she knew he would?
It was ok but id give it 6 out of 10.

[roostercogburn]

I had a deck of trick cards, half of the cards were the ace of spades, which were the size of a regular card, the other 26 cards, were a fraction of an inch shorter, many tricks were available with this deck, if you knew what you were doing...

[bambi]

Kad su došli u Jugoslaviju tražiti filmske terene Robert Redford je imao nadimak VIP kapi više njih tu a Brad Pitt sigurno neko indijansko jer je glumio sa Indijancima u filmu legenda o jeseni. Srobert Redford kad se prevede njegov nadimak very important person postaje važna osoba

[roquefortfiles]

The shot was done with a little photography fakery. They had a Vegas card ace doing all the card work. At the very end of the shot you'll notice he pulls BOTH his hands away. That is key. As his hands leave frame the camera stops rolling. Newman then takes his place and the camera pans up to him winking. The cut was done on the hands leaving frame. Because the camera is locked off you don't notice the switch.