Word: redford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Redford, by contrast, glowers like Hud in the role of the Sundance Kid. As a cold-blooded killer, he bears little resemblance to the whining husband of Barefoot in the Park. His moustache droops, for one thing. He grunts, bites bullets, and shoots people (mostly Bolivians) with laughable accuracy. Both Newman and Redford bring sharp comic timing to the title roles, but Sundance is the more remarkable creation. He's chilling and funny at the same time...
...time of the pistol-packing renegade had run out-worldwide. In 1909, they met their appropriately gory end, undone by two new enemies, the federates and the 20th century. As Butch and the Kid, respectively, Paul Newman and Robert Redford are afflicted with cinematic schizophrenia. One moment they are sinewy, battered remnants of a discarded tradition. The next they are low comedians whose chaffing relationship -and dialogue-could have been lifted from a Batman and Robin episode...
...stubborn kind of performer who is as suspicious of the Hollywood system as a student rebel is of the university trustees. Many of the young stars are, in fact, anti-stars, who fight against the inducements and erosions of the big time. People like Olivia Hussey, Robert Redford and David Warner have nothing against fame, but they trade on it to gain freedom?the freedom to choose their roles and their directors. The once-desirable studio contract now looks like slavery...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Jane Fonda and Robert Redford do well by Neil Simon's Broadway comedy about newlyweds settling down in a six-flight walkup...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Author Neil Simon has taken a plot as bland as a potato, sliced it into thin bits-and made it as hard to resist as potato chips. Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Mildred Natwick are as crisp as the script...