The Electric Horseman [SEP] director
The Electric Horseman
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American western adventure-romance 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.
Plot.
Norman "Sonny" Steele is a former championship rodeo rider who has sold out to a business conglomerate and is now reduced
Way We Were" (1973) and "Three Days of the Condor" (1975). This director-actor relationship would continue with two more films: "Out of Africa" (1985) and "Havana" (1990). Pollack had also previously directed Fonda in "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969), whereas Redford and Fonda previously teamed on "The Chase" (1966) and "Barefoot in the Park" (1967).
"The Electric Horseman" is