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 The Toronto Film Festival audience erupted with applause after
the screening of comedy caper "The Old Man & the Gun" in which
Redford, 81, plays a charming, real-life bank robber who was
caught 17 times during the course of a 60 year crime career but
who managed to escape from jail every time.
"I've always been attracted with the idea of outlaws since I was
a kid and I played that out in my work a lot, so this just
followed suit," the "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" star
said.
"It's just an upbeat film. It's a true story. It's a wonderful
film to go out on," he said.
Redford said last month that he would retire from acting after
the release of "The Old Man & the Gun". He has said he wants to
spend more time on art - his first love - and plans to continue
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Movies like "All the President's Men," "The Sting" and "Out of
Africa" turned Redford into one of the biggest stars of the
1970s and 1980s but despite winning a directing Oscar for
"Ordinary People" in 1980, he has never won an Academy Award for
acting.
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Director David Lowery said "The Old Man & the Gun" was "a spiritual
successor" to the movies that made Redford a star and that he shot
the movie in the style of 1970s crime films.
Asked to sum up Redford's appeal, Lowery said that the actor's voice
and face on camera had a quality that "can captivate you like
nothing else."
"He has it and very few people do," Lowery said.
"The Old Man & the Gun," which also stars Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover
and Casey Affleck, opens in U.S. movie theaters on Sept. 28.
(Reporting by Gina Cherelus and Rollo Ross; editing by Jill Serjeant)
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