The Candidate

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces The Candidate, 1972.

TCM's Ben Mankiewicz and Guest Programmers Robert Redford and David Lowery's introduction and comments following The Candidate, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Candidate, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Candidate, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Candidate, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces The Candidate, 1972.

After a cameo by senator and former vice-president Hubert Humphrey, McKay (Robert Redford), a novice politician but the son of a former governor, with his wife and campaign manager (Karen Carlson, Peter Boyle), attends his first banquet, Pat Harrington the host, in The Candidate, 1972.

After winning the California Democratic primary, U.S. Senate candidate McKay (Robert Redford, who recruited his friend and former co-star for this appearance) meets Natalie Wood, his wife (Karen Carlson) and campaign manager (Peter Boyle) in tow, in Michael Ritchie’s The Candidate, 1972.

Liberal California senate candidate McKay (Robert Redford) has been persuaded by his staff to visit his father, the former governor (Melvyn Douglas), who has been rumored to prefer the conservative incumbent, at his mountain cabin, Leslie Allen his consort, in Michael Ritchie’s The Candidate, 1972.

Co-producer and star Robert Redford is barely featured in this opening, Michael Ritchie directing from Jeremy Larner’s Academy Award-winning screenplay, as we meet defeated Atkinson (Joe Miksak) and political professionals Klein and Lucas (Allen Garfield, Peter Boyle), in The Candidate 1972.

Seeking a senate candidate in California, political hack Lucas (Peter Boyle) visits legal-aid lawyer McCay (Robert Redford), son of a former governor, future columnist Mike Barnicle his colleague, also meeting Mrs. McKay (Karen Carlson), early in Michael Ritchie's The Candidate, 1972.

A senate candidate (Robert Redford) finds his ideals weaken as his position in the polls gets stronger in The Candidate (1972).