Haven't listened to the commentary yet, but what a great movie. I hadn't watch it in years and just marveled at it all the way thru. One thing I noticed is that if you made it today, it would be full of slinky dames. The two here are not exactly top shelf.

EDIT: Finished the commentary. Fantastic work.

Yeah. Everyone would think it was all films about the US Civil War.

This one I certainly falla...

There is only one point of this film I dislike, and it's the opening con...and I really only dislike it because it happened to me before (I know, I know...experience is often the best teacher, and boy did I gain some XP that day)...

Other than that, short of doing my damnedest to imagine Robert Redford as Naive, great movie...

I prefer Leverage to Hustle, it has fighting and a Parker.

I can agree with that, sure

I recorded a commentary for the pilot of Leverage with John Pavlich for his Sofa Dogs podcast. Shameless plug there

Fun episode about a completely great movie.  Just wanted to mention a brief thing about the music.  This movie was indeed so much the driving force behind a rediscovery of ragtime that people forget that the music is not at all contemporaneous with the period of the film.  As mentioned, Scott Joplin died in 1917, and his first big ragtime hits were around the turn of the century.  In other words, that music is actually 20-30 years out of date. 

So, to refine the analogy that Mike made at the beginning of the episode, it's as if somebody now, today, made a film about the early 1970's  - say a bunch of ex-hippies dealing with "the dream is over", the failure of the summer of love, etc.  - and the music was entirely doo-wop, and that was the catalyst for a big top-40 doo-wop revival.  I think my head would explode if that happened.