Word: redford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first become associated with Redford and Ritchie on The Candidate...
...Robert Redford, and Michael Ritchie share similar political concerns...
...specific issue, although inconsistently, two-thirds of the panel predict that the campaign will be fought primarily on issues. For the first time in these surveys, there is some significant opinion among Democrats (one out of seven) that McGovern may be too radical on issues. Bookkeeper Jeanette Senkowski of Redford Township, Mich., thinks McGovern "changes his positions too often; whatever the polls say, he will...
...acting is also topnotch. Robert Redford's McKay is a perfect seemingly sexless but actually hungry, American idealist; MeIvyn Douglas is fine as his corrupt father; Don Porter, veteran of fatherly roles in TV sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born exhibitionist and a rockribbed physical facade. But Peter Boyle steals the show as Marvin Lucas, McKay's mysterious New York-based campaign manager. Lucas is tough, and smart, and flexible, a Madison Avenue superman; but in his own oily way we feel he cares more seriously than anyone else...
...Larner stack the cards by making all McKay supporters well-fed suburban liberals or eager youths with a renewed faith in the electoral process. Jarmon's people are loud, right-wing, wrong-thinking rednecks who are not even photogenic. Neither the authentic political atmosphere nor canny performances by Redford, Boyle and Porter go far to cut through the basic glibness of the film. Ritchie incorporates numerous television political commercials and makes a point of their smooth dishonesty and wily distortion. None, however have less substance than The Candidate...