ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqNYw0llRtahY7fLFsOYQRkVo2VtNDVkLYsXUIod1Wsat5Tw9vmMPKXtkpyLn_iogdbbsjwvorUyonUsNaEnuirKyLDGoxkD3SFzvYPWY53CXAPFTcEKuoPGTP9c3C3zqMUhe3Jjp2AvbbyGcx4X6374FY2ZFGv-tMC8xwlCz5s-k40ZyDVpjPRlf9jWhW/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-07-08%20at%205.36.15%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYDER serial, and then half-Cherokee killer reigniting his adult career in IN COLD BLOOD, Robert Blake displays his usual charismatic gusto, here as a roguish member of the Paiute tribe and the titular character in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE, hunted by a posse led by generational Indian-hunter Robert Redford in the early 1900's... <br><br>Had WILLIE pitted only Blake vs Redford, cutting from hunter vs hunted, it might have been the kind of Western road movie like Robert's own posse-hunting game-changer BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID... that also had a lot of characters but only centered on what and who's really important...</p><p><span></span></p>

barry sullivan, indians, john vernon, katharine ross, robert blake, robert redford, sixties, western

ROBERT BLAKE & ROBERT REDFORD 'TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE'

Robert Blake in TELL THEM WILLIE BOY IS HERE Year: 1969 Rating: ** Having literally grew up playing Indian boy Little Beaver for the RED RYD...

MARLON BRANDO, ROBERT REDFORD & ROBERT DUVALL 'THE CHASE'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2S1R9c0adhBwlPqAXtfNCbQebk3kXQ2OypuoC2cwhnDJ3T_40lmVyuZDjWn1Ii9tBcVCqZW26NyyuBHPDnxlRBpNiwFoBRubuhCMKQOi4327IdF9ZbX6fArpcm2zfYBMyPwx0DzsiIRBm-DAeP1ClYHAuPxp4tOOCES4csBOchyphenhyphenYcqISo1JkTyxkr014/s1116/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2S1R9c0adhBwlPqAXtfNCbQebk3kXQ2OypuoC2cwhnDJ3T_40lmVyuZDjWn1Ii9tBcVCqZW26NyyuBHPDnxlRBpNiwFoBRubuhCMKQOi4327IdF9ZbX6fArpcm2zfYBMyPwx0DzsiIRBm-DAeP1ClYHAuPxp4tOOCES4csBOchyphenhyphenYcqISo1JkTyxkr014/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marlon Brando in THE CHASE Year: 1966 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Whether deliberate or coincidental, director Arthur Penn attempts what Richard Fleischer pulled off a decade earlier for <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2022/01/VS-take2.html">VIOLENT SATURDAY</a>, combining subtle yet eventually vicious bank robbers within a comparably predictably-conservative small town bustling with the kind of soapy Douglas Sirk-style soap-operatic characters, ironically displaying behavior as flawed as the antagonists... <br></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>But it doesn't work here because the Robert Redford character... the town's former bad boy/escaped convict on the run in that titular CHASE that never really happens... isn't shown enough to counter within the gossiping town anticipating his return, where mumbling sheriff Marlon Brando seems to passively watch the fancy rich folk as if he were part of the movie's audience... </p><p><span></span></p>

angie dickinson, arthur penn, drama, e.g. marshall, ensemble, james fox, janice rule, katherine walsh, marlon brando, robert redford, sixties

MARLON BRANDO, ROBERT REDFORD & ROBERT DUVALL 'THE CHASE'

Marlon Brando in THE CHASE Year: 1966 Rating: ** Whether deliberate or coincidental, director Arthur Penn attempts what Richard Fleischer pu...

ROBERT REDFORD DELIBERATELY CHILLY FOR 'DOWNHILL RACER'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGl3Bvk5b16pCDc2XfVHgj6V1n4bLKLrTdtd_j9KkwSv_PEmcJd9bHqrhv5feJgVjOfe7upsR7eFFstLm0ntnUlIlPbG_lLXqHT7yiwmum8qyP-cFan83N_zQBTMWiiARblghC1XFUS52A6h-0CUYLYdHAc-FfXAohWgRkEJGhi3L9ukXJ1kFEJq5Jbo0/s2048/396535265_1828502070912294_4946696812217336166_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKGl3Bvk5b16pCDc2XfVHgj6V1n4bLKLrTdtd_j9KkwSv_PEmcJd9bHqrhv5feJgVjOfe7upsR7eFFstLm0ntnUlIlPbG_lLXqHT7yiwmum8qyP-cFan83N_zQBTMWiiARblghC1XFUS52A6h-0CUYLYdHAc-FfXAohWgRkEJGhi3L9ukXJ1kFEJq5Jbo0/s16000/396535265_1828502070912294_4946696812217336166_n.jpg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Redford in DOWNHILL RACER Year: 1969 Rates: ****1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A movie has to be about <i>something</i> or <i>someone</i>, and reading any synopsis for DOWNHILL RACER, you'd think the main character, played by Robert Redford, was the biggest jerk on the planet...<br> <br> And while he<i> is</i> difficult and stubborn, childish and bitter, selfish, aloof and argumentative, aren't all great athletes? At least the ones who have <i>only winning</i> on the brain...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><span></span>

camilla sparv, carole carle, dabney coleman, drama, gene hackman, jim mcmullan, kathleen crowley, michael ritchie, robert redford, sixties, sport

ROBERT REDFORD DELIBERATELY CHILLY FOR 'DOWNHILL RACER'

Robert Redford in DOWNHILL RACER Year: 1969 Rates: ****1/2 A movie has to be about something or someone , and reading any synopsis for DOW...

RIDING THROUGH 'BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrL43kWNvC68jZM8EYZFTv_tyZRGI0EQvGCyqrgKTJ9UTDL1TkF07H6_IXboDBwwUPaTOtrUW_aLj8DZOLXDjfzdvSwCVMF51j4Z4jHXxjMnIiawSFqHESJqTVJh7raGs9eZaTl2h1Wd0/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrL43kWNvC68jZM8EYZFTv_tyZRGI0EQvGCyqrgKTJ9UTDL1TkF07H6_IXboDBwwUPaTOtrUW_aLj8DZOLXDjfzdvSwCVMF51j4Z4jHXxjMnIiawSFqHESJqTVJh7raGs9eZaTl2h1Wd0/s400/1.jpg" width="400"></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 1969 cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford Director: George Roy Hill</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There are some classics that are good great movies as opposed to true classic classics, and this is a great good movie...<br> <br> That's only if you can get past the horrible, dementedly unfitting song that jumps the shark of the century before there was such a thing...<br> <br> For some unfathomable reason, <i>Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head</i> plays during a scene where Paul Newman's fast-talking leader of an inept yet successful gang of bank and train robbers, Butch Cassidy, takes his young, bearded, blond-haired partner's girl, Katharine Ross as Etta, on a bicycle (some kinda new contraption that will one day "replace the horse") riding tour of the surrounding town, the morning after just another night with her lover, Sundance...<br>

george furth, george roy hill, paul newman, robert redford, strother martin, western

RIDING THROUGH 'BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID'

year: 1969 cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford Director: George Roy Hill There are some classics that are good great movies as opposed to ...

ROBERT REDFORD & NICK NOLTE TAKE A 'WALK IN THE WOODS'

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdYcotgR2J21A7vO7fFRhG1XLND1NTgg4qbYgcd4yCinxpLIC1IgxOrSP3C-64NAqC-0E8kyYZSrH05VIl4m1Sa_lQKFkfhPc_RntTsD0n2acp94snzya3KvKipV3ULsloYxW83p9Oug/s1600/Screen+shot+2015-09-05+at+10.53.12+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRdYcotgR2J21A7vO7fFRhG1XLND1NTgg4qbYgcd4yCinxpLIC1IgxOrSP3C-64NAqC-0E8kyYZSrH05VIl4m1Sa_lQKFkfhPc_RntTsD0n2acp94snzya3KvKipV3ULsloYxW83p9Oug/s400/Screen+shot+2015-09-05+at+10.53.12+PM.png" width="280" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>year: 2015 WoodsyScore: ***</u></td></tr> </tbody></table> There's a classic (though probably unintentional) homage when Robert Redford, as a bored travelogue writer, and Nick Nolte, as his once-wild companion, are staring off the edge of an Appalachian Trail peak with nowhere to go but way, way down... Well the younger SUNDANCE could have survived but these guys are just too old to take risks... Though not entirely...<br /> <br /> The hike is quite a chore, especially so late in life, and the first twenty minutes doesn't really develop the characters but plays a sort of hesitation game while learning about other people that don't matter much (like Emma Thompson as a wife so open-minded she's just not interesting)... So once the journey finally gets underway, it's all about Redford's classy-wise Bill and Nolte's shaggy, weathered Stephan.<br /> <br /> Feeling catered to a mainstream audience and taking on a BUCKET LIST plot without Cancer, the movie itself hikes from here to there in a breezy, safe fashion whilst providing laidback, time-filling entertainment. So when a load of misadventures happen (and keep happening) to the boys, from an annoying female camper to a jealous small town husband, the results feel contrived. But there is one particular scene (led by Nolte) where they not only genuinely bond with each other, the audience gets to see past the cliche "we're too old for this" template and the two veteran actors get to finally... act their talents.

comedy, emma thompson, hike, nick nolte, road movie, robert redford

ROBERT REDFORD & NICK NOLTE TAKE A 'WALK IN THE WOODS'

year: 2015 WoodsyScore: *** There's a classic (though probably unintentional) homage when Robert Redford, as a bored travelogue writ...

MARVEL PRESENTS CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0gPUIop-6ZAriN3XwEzS-1t-nBWm3u7JoE2VdyPmZgCrXlyWreagUM-Tei3BIymu9sNK9EO8h3SuJBhWTo71GP3Q8BaJnB8zWin6obAT1MXUfboAG8rucltErNsEGEHKE4ctK8bdryE/s1600/2aaaea27-f3d2-40fe-b2fa-a62f535d6fe9_zps8dda70f8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid0gPUIop-6ZAriN3XwEzS-1t-nBWm3u7JoE2VdyPmZgCrXlyWreagUM-Tei3BIymu9sNK9EO8h3SuJBhWTo71GP3Q8BaJnB8zWin6obAT1MXUfboAG8rucltErNsEGEHKE4ctK8bdryE/s320/2aaaea27-f3d2-40fe-b2fa-a62f535d6fe9_zps8dda70f8.jpg" width="223" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2014 rating: *1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> “Lotta things you don’t know about me,” Nick Fury tells Captain America… And he could also be talking to the theater audience since so far, through several films, the monotone, monologue-spouting S.H.I.E.L.D chief has been kept on the peripheral…<br /> <br /> And now he, along with former Russian agent Natasha, can step into the co-lead spotlight, which sadly winds up casting an extremely dull glow on everyone…<br /> <br /> Especially our hero, Steve Rogers, who literally starts out in a brisk, humorous pace and then has a bland pop culture conversation with fellow soldier Sam Wilson, played by Anthony Mackie, a forced sidekick eventually donning his winged-costume befitting a bad cartoon...<br /> <br /> Perfectly suited for other Marvel ventures, the new character Falcon awkwardly contrasts to the gloomy plot that's part James Bond, part political thriller: The latter where Robert Redford, as a stiff-suited wolf in sheep's clothing... setting up giant drone flying machines to "protect" the country... fits like a dreary glove.   <br /> <br /> Between spurts of bombastic action are lofty conversations about American defense, questionable freedom and glimpses into the first movie including a pointless visit to Steve's old stomping grounds… This occurs after Sam Jackson’s Fury has his very own car chase leading to the introduction of a stealthy, long-haired assassin with limitless fighting skills, equal to Captain America, and whose real identity adds to the melodrama. (Tony Stark, where are you? These people take themselves way too seriously!) <br /> <br /> The only good parts that seem worthy of – or that were already wasted and/or spoiled on – theatrical trailers happen much too fast while the<i> </i>head villain’s wag-the-dog goal is not only cliché, but for a  world derived from comic book origins, and following up the cinematic spectacle that is THE AVENGERS, this uneven, uninspired SOLDIER is no fun at all...

2014, chris evans, comic book, marvel, robert redford, samuel l. jackson, scarlett johansson

MARVEL PRESENTS CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER

year: 2014 rating: *1/2 “Lotta things you don’t know about me,” Nick Fury tells Captain America… And he could also be talking to the the...

ROBERT REDFORD IN ALL IS LOST

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdpv3H2H68cFeRNHcWtBLaepbH5Lh5pLWjK4mh8LXwwggjwmqF2LdRMPQful8VuL0TAjAqZiBafo-w2D7oYJ5xoP40PIAvoSHHeKCKT1CtO3vbZM_5Vi456V97Uyr2RddJB8onphKR5g/s1600/all-is-lost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpdpv3H2H68cFeRNHcWtBLaepbH5Lh5pLWjK4mh8LXwwggjwmqF2LdRMPQful8VuL0TAjAqZiBafo-w2D7oYJ5xoP40PIAvoSHHeKCKT1CtO3vbZM_5Vi456V97Uyr2RddJB8onphKR5g/s640/all-is-lost.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">year: 2013 cast: Robert Redford rating: **1/2</td></tr> </tbody></table> Prepare for GRAVITY at sea, or CASTAWAY without the volleyball… The only difference is we never really get to know the character, credited as <i>Our Man</i>, played by Robert Redford who, at seventy-seven years old, proves he can still get around... Especially since the unnamed character finds himself in trouble when a shipping container, having punched a hole in the side of his boat, causes him to roam around the vessel to stay both afloat and alive…<br /> <br /> From the very beginning we’re stuck on a damaged sailboat, battling formidable storms and other acts of nature… And what writer/director J.C. Chador accomplishes in place of character-development is the meticulous manner of fixing the hull while collecting an assortment of survival gear, from fishing line to a large blow-up raft: making it through each day under the scorching sun…<br /> <br /> Redford’s lone wolf has more goodies than expected including an abundance of flares and the big raft that keeps him alive, much longer than the slowly sinking vessel. These easy-outs hinder the needed suspense for a two-hour survival film with very little dialogue and absolutely no backstory… And not surprisingly, Robert turns in a decent performance – mostly reactions from the impending elements with a few outbursts of emotion… But we never get to know the man to really make him our own i.e. Our Man… He really belongs to the sea: ALL IS LOST is <i>her </i>movie…

2013, robert redford, survival, suspense

ROBERT REDFORD IN ALL IS LOST

year: 2013 cast: Robert Redford rating: **1/2 Prepare for GRAVITY at sea, or CASTAWAY without the volleyball… The only difference is we ...

THE STING

<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhio2OF8ouzAlM8o_D8kPBlQeKPEFSadHV-0eQS_Z6Ht6EEn9PJT0861Wx4xx90kRz6DDWVxwdrLUllX_ZAIC91IZLA-DehzHZFoYD5mQTMZLARHUcf5VoXk4hJwxPgc41ghxhIbAw9a6E/s1600/STING.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5592931060642601058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhio2OF8ouzAlM8o_D8kPBlQeKPEFSadHV-0eQS_Z6Ht6EEn9PJT0861Wx4xx90kRz6DDWVxwdrLUllX_ZAIC91IZLA-DehzHZFoYD5mQTMZLARHUcf5VoXk4hJwxPgc41ghxhIbAw9a6E/s200/STING.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 130px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><strong></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">title:</span> THE STING<br /><strong>year:</strong> 1973<strong><br />cast:</strong> Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw<br /><div><strong>rating:</strong> ***1/2<br /><br /></div><div></div>Not so much a Robert Redford/Paul Newman team-up, but a Redford vehicle with some Newman on the side, pitting a gang of likable shysters against monopolizing mobster Robert Shaw, who’s responsible for many deaths: including Redford’s former small-time partner. So with the help of Newman as an alky gambler, they devise a sting involving a card game and "rigged" horse races. The direction flows, the acting is good, but what really works are the depression-era sets and the jazzy Scott Joplin score, making the somewhat implausible con, and the clever yet cop-out<span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>twist ending, not matter. </div>

caper, con man, paul newman, robert redford, robert shaw, sally kirkland, seventies

THE STING

title: THE STING year: 1973 cast: Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw rating: ***1/2 Not so much a Robert Redford/Paul Newman team-...