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Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
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Story by | Shelly Burton |
Produced by | Ray Stark |
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Cinematography | Owen Roizman |
Edited by | Sheldon Kahn |
Music by | Dave Grusin |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $12.5 million[3] |
Box office | $61.8 million[2] |
The Electric Horseman is a 1979 American western comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack. The film is about a former rodeo champion who is hired by a cereal company to become its spokesperson and then runs away on a $12 million electric-lit horse and costume he is given to promote it in Las Vegas after he finds that the horse has been abused.