Dated but not out of date...

Another from the Sharonville branch...The Candidate starring Robert Redford...

Politcal satire in which an honest man isn't quite corrupted by the system...Peter Boyle does a great job as the ad-man who runs Redford's campaign, never quite pushing Redford but never quite letting him refuse to be lead either...loved seeing Boyle in the full beard - very different from other parts he's been of late...

All in all, not a bad film, but the feeling of revelation that might have taken hold in 1972 seeing that a candidate's campaign could be a savvy media manipulation doesn't pack quite the same punch in ye modern times. Wag the Dog updated the ideas pretty well, and even The Distinguished Genltemen has mined this teritory in a modern way. The film did stay amazingly close to the personality of Redford's Bill McKay who never quite broke but certainly bent in the winds.

Not a bad pick-up...