Robert Redford Bronson for Pollack's "This Property Is Condemned" (1966)—again as her lover, though this time in a film which achieved even greater success. The same year saw his first teaming (on equal footing) with Jane Fonda, in Arthur Penn's "The Chase". This film marked the only time Redford would star with Marlon Brando. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the popular big-screen version of "Barefoot in the Park" (1967) and were again co-stars much later in Pollack's "The Electric Horseman" (1979), followed 38 years later with a Netflix feature, "Our Souls at Night". After this initial success, Redford became concerned
Jane Fonda totally that her performance is very pure -- unadorned by "acting." She never stands outside Bree, she gives herself over to the role, and yet she isn't lost in it -- she's fully in control, and her means are extraordinarily economical. She has somehow got to a plane of acting at which even the closest closeup never reveals a false thought and, seen on the movie streets a block away, she's Bree, not Jane Fonda, walking toward us. There isn't another young dramatic actress in American films who can touch her." Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" also praised Fonda's