Great Actor-Director duos
Some of Hollywood's best movies have been turned out by great actor-director duos: John Wayne and John Ford; Jack Lemmon and Billy Wilder; Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese. This week, another popular team, Robert Redford and Sydney Pollack, unveil their seventh collaboration. Though it's too early to tell whether Havana will roll a lucky seven, their past projects have been met with good reviews, healthy box-office figures, 19 Academy Award nominations, and 9 Oscars — including 7 for Out of Africa.
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
A Depression-era soap opera with
Redford and Natalie Wood in a doomed love affair. James Wong Howe's
cinematography is impressive in this otherwise overwrought potboiler.
C+
Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
A rugged Western adventure featuring
Redford as a legendary mountain man. Pollack culls a
strong-silent-type performance from his star and captures the
splendor of the Rocky Mountains. B+
The Way We Were (1973)
Redford and costar Barbra Streisand are the
definition of screen chemistry in Pollack's nostalgic love story. B+
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The director pumps up the
paranoia for this thriller about a CIA researcher investigating the
murder of his coworkers. A-
The Electric Horseman (1979)
A down-and-out rodeo cowboy (Redford)
falls for an investigative reporter (Jane Fonda) in this feisty
throwback to Tracy-Hepburn-style, romantic tug-of-wars. B-
Out of Africa (1985)
Redford is an enigmatic hunter involved with
writer Isak Dinesen (Meryl Streep) in this beautifully filmed epic.
A
