![]() ![]() These films deal with issues of social and legal injustice, and they have a keen edge that shows a different side to Newman. Okay, maybe not the volcano-based disaster film he was contractually obliged to make in 1980 ( When Time Ran Out…, which is a film Newman publically stated he regretted making) but the three films he made in 19: Fort Apache, The Bronx Absence Of Malice and The Verdict. He was great in all of those films, but I think his best performances lie at the beginning of the 1980s. His rebelliousness was appealing, and his smile was box-office gold. By the end of the 1970s Paul Newman had been acting for over twenty-five years, and had become one of the most recognisable actors on the planet from roles such as Butch Cassidy, Cool Hand Luke, Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, and Henry Gondorff in The Sting – all roles in which he showed unmatchable coolness, and a desire to buck the system. ![]()
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