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HIS GREATEST FILMS

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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE

SUNDANCE KID, 1969: After a train heist goes wrong, Sundance and Butch (Robert Redford, right, and Paul Newman) flee from a posse of Wild West lawmen.

THE STING, 1973: With Scott Joplin’s The Entertaine­r as its unforgetta­ble theme, this crime thriller sees Redford and Newman reunited.

THE GREAT GATSBY, 1974: The great American novel makes a soulless movie, but Redford is perfect, right, as the man who rises from nothing to have everything . ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN, 1976: Co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Washington Post journalist­s Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward help bring down US president Richard Nixon. ORDINARY PEOPLE, 1980: Redford’s directoria­l debut stars Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore as a couple trying to overcome the grief of losing a child. OUT OF AFRICA, 1985: This heartbreak­er sees Redford as the devil-may-care aviator and big game hunter who falls in love with Meryl Streep as she fights to keep her farm alive.

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, 1992: Brad Pitt is a trouble-making country boy who wants to spend his life doing nothing but fishing in the backwoods, in another heartfelt story from Redford as director.

INDECENT PROPOSAL, 1993: After losing their last dime at the tables in Las Vegas, Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore face a dilemma – will she sleep with Redford’s billionair­e for $1 million?

THE HORSE WHISPERER, 1998: Redford directs and stars as a man with the gift of healing horses. Kristin Scott Thomas co-stars.

ALL IS LOST, 2013: A lone yachtsman guides his sinking boat through a storm on the Indian Ocean, in this one-man odyssey.

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