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Shelly Burton (story)
Paul Gaer (story)
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Release Date:
13 March 1980 (UK) more
Plot:
Sonny Steele used to be a rodeo star, but his next appearance is to be on a Las Vegas stage, wearing a suit covered in lights... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win more
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Redford And Fonda, Together Again! more (24 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Robert Redford | ... | Norman 'Sonny' Steele | |
| Jane Fonda | ... | Alice 'Hallie' Martin | |
| Valerie Perrine | ... | Charlotta Steele | |
| Willie Nelson | ... | Wendell Hickson | |
| John Saxon | ... | Hunt Sears | |
| Nicolas Coster | ... | Fitzgerald | |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Danny Miles | |
| Wilford Brimley | ... | Farmer | |
| Will Hare | ... | Gus Atwater | |
| Basil Hoffman | ... | Toland | |
| Timothy Scott | ... | Leroy | |
| James Sikking | ... | Dietrich (as James B. Sikking) | |
| James Kline | ... | Tommy | |
| Frank Speiser | ... | Bernie | |
| Quinn K. Redeker | ... | Bud Broderick (as Quinn Rdeker) |
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Electric (USA) (trailer title)
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Runtime:
122 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | Argentina:Atp | Chile:TE | Finland:S | USA:PG | Singapore:PG | UK:PG
Filming Locations:
Caesar's Palace - 3570 Las Vegas Boulevard South, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA more
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When Gus responds to Hallie Martin's query about Sonny's whereabouts, the lines "like a flutterin' bird... like a mist... and blocks out the sun" are actually taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses: they are spoken by the Dawn, who laments her son's death on the plains of Troy. more
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Continuity: The video footage shown on television of Sonny Steele's speech about the horse doesn't match what Alice would have actually shot. The camera movement, lighting and direction of where Steele was facing while talking is completely different. more
Quotes:
Ampco Industries PR Man:
Grace, why don't you stand in front of that poster with Sonny, and Steve can take your picture to bring home.
Sonny Steele:
Oh, no, why don't you just take a picture of Grace in front of that picture of me with that box with the picture of me on the box holding the picture of me with the picture of me? Then you've got Grace, and you've got a whole bunch of pictures of me.
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Featured in Leonard Nimoy Demonstrates the Magnavision Videodisc Player (1981) (V) more
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Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys more
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Saddle up! for this Excellent romantic-comedy, Robert Redford stars as Sonny Steele who once was a world class Rodeo star, but is now a washed up drunkard reduced to advertising breakfast cereal on TV for the shady AMPCO corporation,whose latest Publicity campaign features prize winning race horse Rising Star,
AMPCO's next junket takes place at Las Vegas where Redford is to Launch the campaign ,Behind a backdrop of glamor and corporate greed, Redford discovers that the horse has been drugged with an abundance of steroids,Redford saddles up and literally takes off with the horse in protest,
Jane Fonda plays Hallie, a news reporter who might just get an exclusive, follows Redford on his quest to release Rising Star into the wild to roam free.
Sydney Pollack, always with a great eye for casting, even has country and western favorite Willie Nelson, Valerie Perrine has an appearance as An old flame of Redford's, Wilford Brimley has a small role as kindly farmer who helps Redford on his way, Usual Pollack regular Composer, Dave Grusin Contribute's Greatly,