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Of course, neither of those two films made much money, but they revealed Redford’s true colours as a card-carrying liberal, and showed the less palatable side of the American dream. In Downhill Racer (1969) he was an arrogant skiing champ who comes to doubt the win-at-all-costs culture of his sport and his country. In The Candidate (1972) Redford played an idealistic lawyer who goes into politics and sells out his principles to win a senatorial campaign. 'The films on which I have control,’ he says, 'are critical sketches of my own society.’