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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Redford, Robert
| Let's go on with the rather well-known movies. He puts a gun to her back, ties her up and involves in a spy intrigue, but she likes him anyway. Who wouldn't? | Robert Redford's Movie Love Partners
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Faye Dunaway. Faye played the woman who helped Joseph Turner, after he caught her in a shop in "Three Days of a Condor" (1975). He helped her, too. She regained some trust in people after having met Joe. Chen played Joe's girlfriend, who was shot at the very beginning.
Debra Winger. The movie is "Legal Eagles" (1986), I must admit I absolutely adore it even though the plot makes hardly any sense at all. Daryl starred too, playing an eccentric artist who was pretty, but probably too eccentric for Redford's Tom Logan.
Barbra Streisand. The movie's title is, as you may well guess, "The Way We Were" (1973). Allen and Baxter also played with Redford, though in different films, and more political ones, I would say.
| So, there was a prison, right? Let's try this one, then. He's in prison, though not for any crime, and he's trying to reform it while she supports him to an extent. | Robert Redford's Movie Love Partners
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Jane Alexander. The movie was "Brubaker" (1980) and the affair plot was hardly needed. Yet, as I said, it's difficult for the screenwriters to avoid them. Glenn Close appeared as a good female in "The Natural."
War Hunt. These were four of Redford's first five film credits. After "War Hunt" (1962) there were a lot of television appearances before his next film, "Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious" (1965). This was quickly followed by "Inside Daisy Clover" (1965), "The Chase" (1966) and "This Property is Condemned" (1966), and the transition to the big screen was accomplished.
Tom Skerritt and Sydney Pollack also made their film acting debuts along with Robert Redford in “War Hunt”. In 1992, Tom Skerritt was the father of the family in “A River Runs Through It”, directed by Redford. He has appeared in many television shows – my personal favorite was “Picket Fences”.
Sydney Pollack has become better known as a director, including a number of films starring Robert Redford, including “Jeremiah Johnson”, “The Way We Were”, “Three Days of the Condor” and “Out of Africa”.
| What was the name of the film, adapted from a Neil Simon play, in which Robert Redford starred with Jane Fonda? | Robert Redford's Roles
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Barefoot in the Park. All four films were based on Neil Simon stage plays. “Barefoot in the Park” was a romantic comedy which starred Redford and Fonda as newlyweds, Corrie and Paul Bratter, struggling to cope with life in a 5th-floor walkup apartment. He was an uptight lawyer, she wanted him to relax and have fun. It was a comedy, so she won. Released in 1967, it also featured Mildred Natwick (who had also appeared in the Broadway production) as Corrie’s mother.
“The Odd Couple” (1968) starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two men struggling to adjust to each other’s disparate personalities as they shared an apartment.
“The Out-of-Towners” (1970) starred Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis as a couple encountering a seemingly unending series of calamities as they arrived in New York City.
“The Last of the Red Hot Lovers” featured Alan Arkin and the trio of Sally Kellerman, Paula Prentiss and Renee Taylor in the story of a bachelor trying to find a satisfactory relationship.
| What 1969 film was promoted with the tagline ‘How fast must a man go to get from where he’s at?’ | Robert Redford's Roles
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Downhill Racer. “Downhill Racer” followed the progress of a gifted but socially inept skier as he joined the US ski team, and went for gold at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics - anything to get away from home.
“Little Fauss and Big Halsey” (1970) was the story of two motorcycle racers, with the tagline ‘Little Fauss and Big Halsey are not your father’s heroes’. Robert Redford played an unlikable character for a change!
“Tell Them Willie Boy is Here” (1969) told the tale of an Indian youth (Robert Blake) who killed his girlfriend’s father in self-defense. This resulted in a relentless manhunt, unwillingly led by the local sheriff Christopher ‘Coop’ Cooper (Robert Redford). The girlfriend was Katherine Ross (despite her blue eyes, and with incredibly poor makeup).
“The Chase” (1966) featured Redford as a prison escapee. It also starred Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda.
The Way We Were. "The Way We Were" (1973) depicted the tempestuous relationship between aspiring writer Hubbell (Redford) and the fiesty left-wing political activist Katie (Barbra Streisand). Many remember the film more for its title song than for its searing indictment of the impact of McCarthyism on American society during the 1950s.
"The Candidate" (1972) showed the formation of a presidential candidate, Bill McKay.
"The Natural" (1984) was the story of a talented but undisciplined baseball player, Roy Hobbs.
"Sneakers" (1992) was a film about computer hackers, in which Redford's character was Martin Bishop.
The Horse Whisperer. Robert Redford directed all four of these movies, but only starred in “The Horse Whisperer” (1998). He did provide the narrator’s voice (uncredited) in “A River runs Through It” (1992). He was producer as well as director for “A River Runs Through It”, “The Milagro Beanfield War” (1988) and “Quiz Show” (1994).
| In which movie did Robert Redford’s character utter the classic line, “Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?” | Robert Redford's Roles
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. We couldn’t avoid it forever! Redford and Paul Newman teamed for the first time in this Western Comedy/Drama, but it nearly didn’t happen. Paul Newman’s partner was originally planned to be Steve McQueen (at which time the working title was “The Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy”); then Jack Lemmon turned the part down because he was busy filming "The Odd Couple". The result is cinema legend. If you can’t recite a myriad of classic lines and re-enact a slew of memorable scenes, you probably aren’t reading this note anyway!
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