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Old 11-09-2018, 03:32 PM
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I liked The Old Man and the Gun, for the same reasons our OP raynan said above -- "nice story and no blood or dead bodies."

It was nostalgic fun to see Carrie and The Sundance Kid together.

Redford has that charming bad boy thing going --but now in a geriatric way -- not too geriatric though. (Everything is relative, you know.)

I especially liked the scene where the old man and the detective have a conversation and the detective lets him get away. Kind of like when a deer hunter has an elegant, old, twelve point buck in the crosshairs and then lowers his gun.

I like movies about real people but after I see them, I always have to check on how much was real. For this one, I did my checking on a site called History vs. Hollywood. If you are interested, you can google that site along with the title of the movie and you will find that a lot of this one was true. He was really good at escaping from prison. But his mug shots are not nearly as cute as Robert Redford's.

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Addendum: I went back and found the site I was talking about when I originally posted. Here's the link:

The Old Man & the Gun vs. the True Story of Forrest Tucker

Last edited by Boomer; 11-09-2018 at 04:03 PM.