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The Next Picture Show

#149: Robert Redford, Pt. 2 - The Old Man and the Gun

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Robert Redford says that his starring role in David Lowery’s new THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN will be his final film performance, and if that turns out to be the case, it is in many ways an ideal bookend to Redford’s breakout role in the classic 1969 Western BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. In this second half of our Redford pairing, we talk over the many echoes between OLD MAN and BUTCH CASSIDY, from their respective views on a life of crime and methods of robbery, to how each treats their central cad’s trusting love interest. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID, THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show:  • Genevieve: Drew Goddard’s BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE • Scott: The Ringer’s HALLOWEEN UNMASKED podcast, Tamara Jenkins’ PRIVATE LIFE • Keith: Robert Siegel’s CRUISE and Phil Alden Robinson’s SNEAKERS Outro Music: Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “Easy Does It” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sit in quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.2

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.4

Tea break.

0:09.4

Lunch break.

0:10.2

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.1

Sometimes it's not time for some tombollah, right?

0:15.1

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.

0:29.3

Go on. Play some other time. visit your nan time go on play some other time put your phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gamble aware.org It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:36.2

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:42.9

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:49.5

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast to put it to a classic film

0:53.9

in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here again with

0:57.5

Genevieve Koski. Scott Tobias. Tasha Robinson won't be with us because, guys, this is hard

1:01.9

to say, but she's on the run from the law. She's on the run for like four weeks. I know.

1:07.4

If anyone sees her, consider the romantic appeal of living on your own terms and just let her be, okay?

1:14.2

In our last episode, we discussed the classic 60s western Butch Castley and the Sundance Kid.

1:19.0

In this one, we'll cover The Old Man in the Gun, a David Lowry film starring Robert Redford that owes a lot to the other half of our pairing and many other films from Redford's career.

1:27.9

The Old Man the Gun began as a 2003 New Yorker article by David Grant about the life and career

1:32.6

of Forrest Tucker, a criminal whose arrest record dated back to his teen years, as did his

1:37.1

escapes from whatever facilities he was placed in, including San Quentin. The film mostly covers

1:42.0

a later chapter in Tucker's career when he and a gang of

1:44.4

fellow agent bandits robbed a series of banks in the southwest. Redford plays Tucker with a twinkle

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