THE CRITIC: Robert Redford was a charismatic actor and a masterful storyteller
“I can’t swim!” Robert Redford uttered many immortal lines over his long film career, but there was something about the revelation, halfway through Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, that stuck in the mind. Up to that point his character — Sundance — had been cool and tough, the gunfighter so famous that his name stops duels before they begin. Now suddenly he was vulnerable and scared and angry, preferring to face the impossible odds of fighting his pursuers than a jump off a waterfall. » | Robert Hutton | Tuesday, September 16, 2025
