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Dec 21, 1979 · The Electric Horseman: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, Willie Nelson. A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Sydney Pollack
- 1979-12-21
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American western comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack.The film is about a former rodeo champion who is hired by a cereal company to become its spokesperson and then runs away on a $12 million electric-lit horse and costume he is given to promote it in Las Vegas after he finds that the horse has been abused.
- $12.5 million
- Ray Stark
Besides Las Vegas, location shooting for The Electric Horseman took place in the Utah wilderness near Redford's home (so he could get a break on his state taxes). Most of the shoot went smoothly, but when a series of traveling thunder storms kept interrupting a Redford-Fonda kissing scene, the 20-second bit ended up costing $280,000 for the 48 ...
Directed by. "The Electric Horseman" is the kind of movie they used to make. It's an oddball love story about a guy and a girl and a prize racehorse, and it has a chase scene and some smooching and a happy ending. It could have starred Tracy and Hepburn, or Gable and Colbert, but it doesn't need to because this time it stars Robert Redford and ...
