LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Memorable films starring Robert Redford are on movie buffs’ minds right now along with his passing at age 89, and two films with Las Vegas connections are amongst these titles.
“Indecent Proposal” and “The Electric Horseman” weren’t Redford’s signature roles, however they had been large after they hit the theaters. He additionally produced “The Mustang,” a movie shot in Carson Metropolis and launched simply six years in the past.
Robert Redford and Demi Moore in a scene from the movie ‘Indecent Proposal’, 1993. (Photograph by Paramount Footage/Getty Photographs)
In its day, the scandalous “Indecent Proposal” had everybody speaking about love and cash. Redford performed a billionaire who approaches a down-on-their-luck couple in Las Vegas with a proposal of $1 million to sleep with the spouse, performed by Demi Moore. When the film was launched in 1993, Redford was 57; Moore was 30.
Would you? That was the query everybody was asking. And Las Vegas was the backdrop. Moore and Woody Harrelson had the intense concept they may win sufficient to pay their mortgage. Once more … would you?
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Scenes from the film had been filmed on the Las Vegas Hilton, now the Westgate Lodge Las Vegas.
Fourteen years earlier, Redford was using by the Caesars Palace and out onto the Strip as “The Electric Horseman.” It was a romantic comedy starring Redford as a washed-up cowboy making an attempt to make a buck and Jane Fonda as a reporter who needs to inform his story. Redford did all his personal stunts, regardless of issues concerning the horse within the crowded on line casino scene.
Robert Redford in a scene from “The Electric Horseman” in 1979. The comedy-drama, directed by Sydney Pollack, starred Redford as Norman “Sonny” Steele. (Photograph by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Photographs)
Whereas it wasn’t a mega-hit on the field workplace, “The Electric Horseman” did properly as moviegoers eagerly awaited Redford’s return to the display screen after a three-year hiatus.
Redford’s different work in Nevada, to no shock, concerned extra horses. He was a vocal critic of federal roundups utilizing helicopters. He additionally advocated for shielding the surroundings all throughout the West. That work contributed to the creation of nationwide monuments. His help for the institution of Grand Staircase-Escalante Nationwide Monument in Utah was well-known.
“The Mustang”was filmed on the historic Nevada State Jail in Carson Metropolis, which was shut down in 2012. It is primarily based on a real story of a convict who finds new that means in his life by working to coach wild mustangs.
One other movie launched in 2024 carries Redford’s producer credit score. The documentary, “The Mustangs: America’s Wild Horses” concerned Redford, Patti Scialfa Springsteen and Jessica Springsteen as government producers. It aired on PBS.
