Robert Redford could make almost any movie he wanted after 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid upped his profile, but almost immediately, he started making movies that spoke to him personally for one reason or another. In 1972, he made two such films: Jeremiah Johnson, the story of a mountain man in Utah that utilized the rugged natural beauty that would later house Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, and The Candidate, in which he played a charismatic politician with a seemingly bright future. Peter Boyle plays his campaign manager, and the film has a message, and a set of concerns, far ahead of its time.