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Small-time grifter Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) unknowingly steals from big-time crime boss Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw) when he pulls a standard street con. Lonnegan demands satisfaction for the insult. After his partner is killed, Hooker flees and seeks the help of Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), master of the long con. Hooker wants to use Gondorff's expertise to take Lonnegan for an enormous sum of money to even the score. They devise a complicated scheme and amass a talented group of other con artists who want their share of the reparations.