A former champion rodeo rider is reduced to using his saddle skills to promote a breakfast cereal in a gaudy Las Vegas show. When he's asked to perform with a $12 million horse, he discovers it is being doped to remain docile. He flees into the desert astride the beast in an act of defiance. A story-hungry female reporter gives chase.
Robert Redford
as Sonny
Jane Fonda
as Hallie
Valerie Perrine
as Charlotta
Willie Nelson
as Wendell
John Saxon
as Hunt Sears
Nicolas Coster
as Fitzgerald
Allan Arbus
as Danny
Wilford Brimley
as Farmer
Will Hare
as Gus
Basil Hoffman
as Toland
Timothy Scott
as Leroy
James B. Sikking
as Dietrich
