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Charles Robert Redford Jr. (August 18, 1936 – September 16, 2025) was an American actor, director and activist. Throughout his career, he won several film awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for his 1980 film Ordinary People. He also received an honorary Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 and was also the founder of the Sundance Film Festival. In 2014, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2016 he was honored with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford's television career began in 1960, including an appearance on The Twilight Zone in 1962. He earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). His greatest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of co-star Elizabeth Ashley's character in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). Redford made his film debut in War Hunt (1962). His role in Inside Daisy Clover (1965) won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. He starred alongside Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), which was a huge success and made him a major star. He had a critical and box office hit with Jeremiah Johnson (1972), and in 1973 he had the greatest hit of his career, the blockbuster crime caper The Sting, a re-union with Paul Newman, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award; that same year, he also starred opposite Barbra Streisand in The Way We Were. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (1976) was a landmark film for Redford. In the 1980s, Redford began his career as a director with Ordinary People (1980), which was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning four Oscars including Best Picture and the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford. He continued acting and starred in Brubaker (1980), as well as playing the male lead in Out of Africa (1985), which was an enormous box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. He released his third film as a director, A River Runs Through It, in 1992. He went on to receive Best Director and Best Picture nominations in 1995 for Quiz Show. He received a second Academy Award—for Lifetime Achievement—in 2002. In 2010, he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He additionally won BAFTA, Directors Guild of America, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards.
The heroes, gunslingers from the old days of the Wild West, are forced by circumstances to return to their original profession. Six old friends join forces when each of them learns about a gang of six outlaws who travel from town to town robbing a bank in each and shooting themselves out, said to have the most accurate gun sight and fastest hands and no mercy. They are called the Invincibles. Allegedly, they have already been seen in the town of Indiana Hills, where six legends of the wild west spend their years in retirement. Word came to Virgil Bannester that his son had been shot while defending his city against the Invincibles. Lucius Smith lost his daughter again. Ringo Townsend learned that the Invincibles had set fire to his barn during one of their escapes from the town of River Valley, not far from here. Wyatt Presley got into a fight with one of them while defending Miss Anna's honor in the saloon. John Gibson lost his ship, which was destroyed by invicibles in River Valley, James Baxter lost his lover. These 6 legends of old west are trying to get back in shape and it seems they haven't forgotten it yet, their accuration is great as before, their hands faster than lightning. The Invincibles thought that robbing bank and shooting their way out of Indiana Hills will be easy, but they didn't know that a good old legendary group of Sky Riders were already waiting for them, hungry for revenge. When word gets out that the bank is being robbed, they are ready for revenge.
