Finally - David Ward's Oscar winning con game / revenge saga. Newman takes something of a back seat to Redford - who excels. Note how in interrogation scene with the FBI, (Oscar winning) editor William Reynolds leaves Redford in that long shot, silent, looking down, thinking - classy. The twists and turns are so good that you're left right until the very last iris dissolve thinking - shit! Is something bad going to happen. Which is as much a testament to director Hill - who also won Oscar.
Go on then - the others were for Film, Art direction Henry ('Bummy') Bumstead, later Eastwood collaborator - and James Payne, costumes Edith Head, and score Marvin Hamlisch. Robert Surtees (camera) and Redford were nominated. (Redford never won the acting Oscar - his win was for directing Ordinary People.) For some odd reason it didn't win any BAFTAs, through they had awarded the best actor award to Redford in 1971.
Good support from Harold Gould, plus Robert Shaw, Eileen Brennan, Ray Walston, John Heffernan, Dana Elcar (FBI), Dimitra Arliss, Robert Earl Jones (James's dad).
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