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Article: Robert Redford was recruited to star in `The Last Castle'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 19, 2001
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Robert Redford hasn't played many military guys in his career. In a filmography that counts about 35 titles, the actor has had just a handful of soldier roles: Early on, he was a private in the 1962 pic "War Hunt," and a POW in "Situation Hopeless _ But Not Serious" (1965). He was an Army major in Richard Attenborough's overblown 1977 World War II drama, "A Bridge Too Far," and, well, that's about it.
Until now. In "The Last Castle," Redford _ who reigns, in his own laid-back style, over the modest Sundance empire (a filmmakers' institute, a film festival, a mail-order business) _ stars as a court-martialed Army general sentenced to a maximum-security military ...