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Robert Redford
Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.[2][3][4] He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.[5][6][7]
He attended Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California (where he met Natalie Wood), graduated in 1954, and received a baseball scholarship to the University of Colorado, where he was a pitcher. He lost the scholarship due to excessive drinking, possibly fueled by the death of his mother, which occurred when Redford was 18. He later studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and took classes in theatrical set design at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
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Redford thanks Obama for oil pipe delay -
11 November 2011
-Eco-warrior Robert Redford has thanked U.S. President Barack Obama for "standing up" to oil giants by refusing to sign off on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline plan.-Environmental campaigners have been aiming to prevent the building of the pipeline, which will tra
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Redford 'not comfortable' watching his movies -
12 April 2011
-Veteran actor Robert Redford rarely watches his classic movies, including multi-Oscar winner The Sting - because he feels uncomfortable "looking back" at his films.-The star admits he's never been a fan of seeing himself onscreen, and there are some films in his back c
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Redford landed dream cast with McAvoy and Wright -
12 April 2011
-Robert Redford was determined to land James Mcavoy and Robin Wright as the stars of his new film The Conspirator, insisting "there was no other consideration" for the lead roles.-The Hollywood actor directs the new movie, which tells the story of a woman charged with c
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Robert Redford - filmography
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Buck
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Buck Brannaman, Robert Redford
Director: Cindy Meehl
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Watch now: £3.49
"The Horse Whisperer" may be the stuff of Hollywood legend but the cowboy who inspired the novel and film is very real. Buck Brannaman master horseman, raconteur and philosopher - is a no-excuses cowboy who travels the world sharing a hard-won wisdom that's often more about human relationships ..read more »
 
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The Conspirator
(2010)
Starring: Johnny Simmons, Jonathan Groff, James McAvoy
Director: Robert Redford
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Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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The Conspirator - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Johnny Simmons, Jonathan Groff, James McAvoy
Director: Robert Redford
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Robert Redford focuses on the chaotic moment in history directly following President Lincoln's assassination to tell the story of the proud mother charged with committing the monumental crime, and the ambitious young lawyer who reluctantly becomes her defense attorney. The Civil War has ended, and ..read more »
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Unforeseen,. The
(2007)
Starring: Wendell Berry, Gary Bradley, William Greider
Director: Laura Dunn
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In the 1980s, an ambitious real estate developer came to Austin, Tex., with a dream--to transform miles of pristine wilderness into a sprawling self-sufficient city. When the development threatened a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community ..read more »
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Lions for Lambs
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise
Director: Robert Redford
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Two determined students as a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Robert Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in ..read more »
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from 23,308 members
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An Unfinished Life
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Robert Redford, Morgan Freeman, Joshua Lucas
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Lasse Hallstrom (CHOCOLAT, CIDER HOUSE RULES) directs an all-star cast in this melancholy tale of bitterness and redemption, played out against the beautiful backdrop of rural Wyoming. Jean Gilkyson (Jennifer Lopez) is a single mom on the run from her abusive boyfriend, Gary (Damian Lewis). With ..read more »
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The Clearing
(2004)
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
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Wayne and Eileen live the American Dream; they've raised two children and have built up a successful business. Their harmony is suddenly disrupted, however, when Wayne is kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote forest. While Wayne negotiates for his life, Eileen must work with the FBI to secure ..read more »
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Sacred Planet
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Robert Redford
Director: Jon Long
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Documentary which exposes some of the most magnificent landscapes of the world, and encourages us to focus upon the preservation of our planet. Locations featured include the mountains of Vancouver, the deserts of Namibia and the tropical jungles of Borneo.
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The Last Castle
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo
Director: Rod Lurie
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Three-star General Irwin (Robert Redford) was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and a revered hero in the Persian Gulf and Bosnian campaigns. Now, he has been court-martialed for disobeying orders and he is sentenced to serve time at The Castle, a maximum-security military prison run by Colonel Winter (..read more »
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Spy Game
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Stephen Dillane
Director: Tony Scott
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Robert Redford stars as veteran CIA agent Nathan Muir in this thriller from Tony Scott (TOP GUN, ENEMY OF THE STATE). Set in 1991, Muir expects his last day before retirement to be an easy one. Instead, he finds that his protege, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), is being held on espionage charges in a ..read more »
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The Legend Of Bagger Vance
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron
Director: Robert Redford
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THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE, based on the book of the same title by Steve Pressfield, uses golf as the basis for this spiritual tale of friendship, self-discovery, and faith. His incredible prowess at the game of golf makes young Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) the pride of Savannah, Georgia in 1916. ..read more »
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from 4,404 members
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The Horse Whisperer
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Robert Redford, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dianne Wiest
Director: Robert Redford
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For director Robert Redford the trick was directing himself. The Oscar-winning director (Ordinary People, Quiz Show) says that he is one kind of actor (in the moment) and a different kind of director (more controlling). Whatever the problems, Redford has worked it out beautifully in this leisurely ..read more »
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Up Close And Personal
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing
Director: Jon Avnet
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In this network news romance, a beautiful neophyte reporter rises through the ranks to become a national star with the help of a veteran newscaster. "Suggested" by Alanna Nash's 1988 biography of newswoman Jessica Savitch, "Golden Girl." Academy Award Nominations: Best Original Song ("Because You ..read more »
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Quiz Show
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow
Director: Robert Redford
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It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to take a dive and allow Charles Van Doren (..read more »
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Indecent Proposal
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson
Director: Adrian Lyne
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Longtime sweethearts David (Woody Harrelson), an architect, and Diana (Demi Moore), a real estate agent, find themselves on hard times when financial troubles bring them to the verge of losing their house, which David designed. Taking their last $5,000, they go to Vegas in hopes of multiplying ..read more »
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from 7,548 members
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Sneakers
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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A computer expert (Robert Redford) heads a team of renegade hackers who test security systems. His past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the "Sneakers" into carrying out a covert operation: track down an elusive black box filled with national security secrets.
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A River Runs Through It
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Robert Redford
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Fly-fishing figures prominently in this poignant tale of two brothers growing up in Montana in the early 20th century under the stern rule of their minister father. While both boys rebel, Norman (Craig Sheffer) channels his rebellion into writing, but Paul (Brad Pitt) descends onto a slippery path ..read more »
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from 4,299 members
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Havana
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin
Director: Sydney Pollack
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A cynical gambler reluctantly comes to the aid of a mysterious beauty in this interpolation of Casablanca and the real-life Cuban revolution. Big-stakes American gambler Jack Weil (Robert Redford) is comfortable in the anything-goes Havana of 1958. But with Fidel Castro out in the wilderness ..read more »
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The Milagro Beanfield War
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Ruben Blades, Richard Bradford, Sonia Braga
Director: Robert Redford
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Nothing has changed in Milagro, New Mexico, for 300 years. Then, one day, Joe Mondragon kicks the off-limits community water pipe and begins to irrigate the cracked, dry ground that was once his father's beanfield. The developers of a new luxury recreation area--which is sure to force the natives ..read more »
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Legal Eagles
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah
Director: Ivan Reitman
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A district attorney teams up with an eccentric lawyer to defend a girl accused of theft. While gathering evidence they are drawn into New York's art world and seedy underworld and become the target of a killer.
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from 570 members
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Out Of Africa - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) is a ..read more »
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Out Of Africa
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Adapted from Isak Dinesen's novel, OUT OF AFRICA, this film plaintively tells the story of two troubled adults who meet and fall in love in the African wilderness. Karen Blixen-Flecke (Meryl Streep) is a modern woman, caught in the shortcomings of a practical marriage. Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) ..read more »
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The Natural
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Robert Redford, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close
Director: Barry Levinson
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The film version of The Natural pulls off the neat trick of conveying the spirit of the Bernard Malamud novel upon which it is based, even while changing both the outcome and the meaning of Malamud's closing chapters. In his first film appearance in four years, Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a ..read more »
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Ordinary People
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Director: Robert Redford
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Devastated by the loss of their older son, Calvin (Donald Sutherland) and Beth (Mary Tyler Moore), a well-to-do suburban couple, are trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son, Conrad (Timothy Hutton), attempts suicide. While Beth, who always favored the elder son, retreats into an icy, ..read more »
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Brubaker
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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When Brubaker (Robert Redford) comes to a small state prison to be its new warden, he's horrified by what he sees. Prisoners are sold as slaves, and even decent food can't be obtained without cold, hard cash. So the enraged warden tries to set matters right...but the more he reforms, the more ..read more »
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The Electric Horseman
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine
Director: Sydney Pollack
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A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated ..read more »
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All The President's Men
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Meredith Baxter, Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman
Director: Alan J. Pakula
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Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the ..read more »
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The Great Waldo Pepper
(1975)
Starring: Robert Redford, Bo Svenson, Bo Brundin
Director: George Roy Hill
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A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed, eventually getting a chance to prove himself in a film depicting the dogfights in the Great War.
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The Great Gatsby
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern
Director: Jack Clayton
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This third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic 1925 novel was one of the most hyped movies of the summer of 1974. Robert Redford stars as self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby, who uses his vast (and implicitly ill-gotten) fortune to buy his way into Long Island society. Most of all, Gatsby ..read more »
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The Sting
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
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The Sting - Blu-ray
(1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
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The Way We Were
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Patrick O'Neal, Lois Chiles, Robert Redford
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in this sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand won an Academy Award nomination for her performance as Katie Morosky, a Jewish student radical who falls in love ..read more »
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Jeremiah Johnson
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Robert Redford, Will Geer, Allyn McLerie
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Years before Kevin Costner danced with wolves, Robert Redford headed to the mountains to escape civilization in Sydney Pollack's wilderness western. Around 1850, ex-soldier Johnson (Redford) decides that he would rather live alone as a mountain man in Colorado than deal with society's constraints. ..read more »
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Downhill Racer
(1969)
Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
Director: Michael Ritchie
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Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.
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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Director: Abraham Polonsky
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Based on true events, "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here", tells the story of one of the last Western manhunts, in 1909. Willie Boy, a Native American, kills his girlfriend's father in self defense, and the two go on the run, pursued by a search posse led by Sheriff Christopher Cooper.
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Barefoot In The Park
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Charles Boyer
Director: Gene Saks
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Neil Simon's comedy features Redford as a conservative young lawyer and Fonda as his spontaneous bride, roughing it in New York.This was director Gene Saks' debut. Academy Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actress--Mildred Natwick.
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The Chase
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford
Director: Arthur Penn
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All hell breaks loose in a Texas town when an escaped convict heads home in Arthur Penn's Southern gothic melodrama. Appointed by local kingpin Val Rogers (E. G. Marshall), benevolent Sheriff Calder (Marlon Brando) manages to keep the peace in Tarl, but the situation starts to fester one Saturday ..read more »
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This Property Is Condemned
(1966)
Starring: Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Kate Reid
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this steamy melodrama co-scripted by Francis Ford Coppola from a play by Southern Gothic maestro Tennessee Williams. Robert Redford stars as Owen Legate, a handsome railroad official who comes to Depression-era Dodson, Mississippi, to shut down the local rail yard and lay off ..read more »
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War Hunt
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman
Director: Denis Sanders
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No one is a better soldier than Pvt. Raymond Endore (John Saxon), at least in his own mind. Stationed in Korea as the conflict between the United States and the Asian nation is coming to an end, Endore sleeps while his platoon works to gear up for his nightly patrols of the area. These patrols used ..read more »
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Robert Redford facts
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...EXCELLENT STUFF!! Robert Redford IS AT HIS BEST, BUT I THINK THE FILM WAS LET DOWN SLIGHLY BY DUSTIN HOFFMANS PERFORMANCE...THE RESON WHY I GAVE IT 4 INSTEAD OF 5 STARS.
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