Robert Redford and the American West

Download or read book Robert Redford and the American West written by Elisa Leonelli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ROBERT REDFORD has played many Westerners on the big screen: a romantic outlaw in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) with Paul Newman, a sheriff in Tell Them Willie Boy is Here (1968), a mountain man in Jeremiah Johnson (1972), a rodeo cowboy in The Electric Horseman (1979) with Jane Fonda, a Montana rancher in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. He is the founder of Sundance, an admirer of Native American art and culture and a committed environmentalist. He embodies the best values of the American West.