The Electric Horseman

• 6.053 Drama
• 1979-12-21
• 122 minutes mins

A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.

Starring:

Robert Redford (Sonny) Jane Fonda (Hallie) Valerie Perrine (Charlotta) Willie Nelson (Wendell) John Saxon (Hunt Sears) Nicolas Coster (Fitzgerald) Allan Arbus (Danny) Wilford Brimley (Farmer) Will Hare (Gus) Basil Hoffman (Toland)

Director:

Sydney Pollack

Writer:

Robert Garland