Military prison directed and starred in the latter, along with William Shatner; the movie was based on an earlier play by Saul Levitt, who worked on "The Untouchables" TV series. "The Last Castle" (2001) shows Robert Redford as an important US Army General who is sent to a military prison after contradicting a direct order given by the Commander-in-Chief. Once in prison, he begins to gather the support of inmates, much to the despair of the director of the facility, a Colonel played by James Gandolfini who dislikes losing his authority to a convicted felon. Some of the late-20th-century military novels of
Robert Redford the film rights for the book from Bryson after reading it more than a decade earlier, with the intent of costarring in it with Paul Newman, but had shelved the project after Newman's death. In August 2018, Redford announced his retirement from acting after completion of "The Old Man & the Gun", which was released in September 2018. Redford had long harbored ambitions to work on both sides of the camera. As early as 1969, Redford had served as the executive producer for "Downhill Racer". His first film as director was 1980's Best Picture winner "Ordinary People", a drama about