The Electric Horseman

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The Electric Horseman
Image:48776.1020.A.jpg original movie poster
Directed by	Sydney Pollack
Produced by	Ray Stark
Written by	Shelly Burton Paul Gaer Robert Garland (screenplay)
Starring	Robert Redford Jane Fonda Valerie Perrine John Saxon Willie Nelson
Music by	Buddy Feyne Dave Grusin
Cinematography	Owen Roizman
Editing by	Sheldon Kahn
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures Universal Pictures Rastar Films
Release date(s)	December 21, 1979
Running time	120 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Electric Horseman is a 1979 romance film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It was the second film teaming the two actors after working together in the film Barefoot in the Park in 1967.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Production 3 Quotes 4 External links

Plot

Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a former rodeo rider who has sold his soul to business conglomerate Ampco and is now reduced to selling breakfast cereal. Prior to riding at business show in Las Vegas, Sonny discovers that the horse, Rising Star, has been drugged and injured. In order to save the horse, Sonny plans to steal it and release it in the remote western countryside. Hallie Martin (Jane Fonda), a city reporter who is eager to be the first to cover the Rising Star story falls in love with Sonny and the country lifestyle.

Production

The film was directed by Sydney Pollack. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Sound in 1980. The film is helped by fine music by Willie Nelson (who also has a sidekick part in the film). The soundtrack is not available, but songs like "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" are well known. Potential purchasers of the film should be warned that in some editions Willie Nelson's music of the scene when the horse is released was replaced by vague instrumental music. There are also fine supporting players throughout the film: Valerie Perrine as Sonny's about-to-be-ex-wife, Wilford Brimley plays a farmer who helps Redford on his way.

The film has been seen on television and (re-)released on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD.

The film was co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Universal Pictures, and distributed by Columbia in the US and Universal overseas, though the US rights would later revert to Universal.

Quotes

Hallie Martin: You ride off with somebody else's twelve million dollar horse, did you think we wouldn't notice?

Sonny Steele: (to horse) Okay junkie, no excuses. Tendon's gone down. You ain't weezin' anymore. And, goddamn, I seen you run.

Sonny Steele: I was up before the sun ever hit your room!

Hallie Martin: Well, then you get the getting up medal!

Hallie Martin: I've been to the rodeo. Twice.

Sonny Steele: Did you stay for the rattlesnake round up?

Hallie Martin: Yes. I stayed. Right till the end. I saw the whole thing.

Sonny Steele: They don't have one. How're you gonna round up a rattlesnake?

Hallie Martin: I'm just trying to be pleasant. You get so worked up about everything!

Sonny Steele: What have I got to be worked up about? I've only got a stole horse; everybody except the Coast Guard is after me; I've got nothin' but miles of open country to cross; and now I'm carrying a crazy woman around wearin' shoes from Bloomingbirds who thinks she's seen a rattlesnake round up!

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