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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780783278360
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783278365
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 06, 2003
Running Time: 122 minutes
Sales Rank: 7257
Studio: Universal Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1979
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
When this picture came out in 1979, both Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were at the height of their stardom; in fact, this movie was so big, it took two studios (Columbia and Universal) to make it. Redford plays Sonny Steele, champion rodeo rider turned corporate spokesman (and perpetual drunk). When he discovers that another corporate asset, a racehorse, is just like him--dressed like a buffoon and doped up to the gills--he decides to liberate the animal. Redford's grumpy, wise, and funny performance demonstrates why he was (and is) such a big star (and why director Sydney Pollack made seven movies with him). Fonda is fine as the bright, ambitious, frightened TV reporter whose pursuit of a story pitches her headlong into love. The ending may seem anticlimatic (the big comedy chase comes in the middle of the film), but this is much more a romance story than a chase film. From the beginning, there's little doubt how the story will end (although even then, the movie throws us a little curve), but the movie compensates with sheer star power; Redford and Fonda are all that matter, and in this case they deliver, along with Willie Nelson's fine performance in a pivotal supporting role. --Geof Miller
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Where's the chrome?
The Electric Horseman is Sonny Steele (Robert Redford), a rodeo cowboy who now works for Ampco Industries pitching breakfast cereal and making promotional appearances at corporate events. Wearing a suit festooned with electric lights he is supposed to make a Las Vegas appearance with a $12 Million dollar race horse, Rising Star, for the big corporate merger roll out event.
He sees that the horse is being mistreated, not to mention himself, so he takes off with Rising Star to set her ... Read More
Rating:  - One of the great, unsung romantic westerns of all time...
I have always loved this film. It is a great and moving story, funny and filled with wonderful actors and involving action. Scenery is great, music too. But Fonda and Redford, and the horse, each as beautiful as they will ever be I think, all captivate in this movie. (Brimley and Willie Nelson are great though too.) It is a story about man against the heartless machinery of the modern world, but told in a down-to-earth, interesting way, that ends in triumph over adversity; and it is full of oddly ... Read More
Rating:  - This is not the original theatrical release
This is an edited version of the original. As another reviewer commented the opening credits have been changed to a generic instrumental- it had been Willie Nelson's "My Heros Have Always been Cowboys". if you've seen the original opening you'll know why this is significant. Also I know there is at least one deleted scene where Sunny goes and gets help from Gus- again a significant loss to the film. I returned the DVD.
Rating: - Get this DVD, not the 2003 release
I read a review on Amazon that said this one (the 1998 DVD) had the original music so I spent the extra $$ to get it and I'm glad I did. The music is a key element to the story and watching it without Willie Nelson's songs would have been plain wrong!
Rating: - WITHOUT "MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN COWBOYS" IT IS JUST NOT THE SAME
This version of the movie was RUINED by someone in a suit in a high tower office who doesn't know anything about movies. I hope he's been fired by now. I've been devistated since the change, and until I just read these other reviews, I didn't know where to get a copy of the original, other than the Beta tape I taped off television the first time it aired.
The opening takes my breath away every time.
And WHY don't they offer it in TRUE STEREO? I am sure I saw it in stereo ... Read More
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