Havana

In 1990 Pollack made Havana, his final collaboration with Redford. The 1950s drama centres on a high-stakes gambler (Redford) who travels to Cuba and falls in love with the wife (Lena Olin) of a communist revolutionary (Raul Julia). However, the film was widely panned, especially for its wholesale borrowing…

…Long Goodbye (1973); Sydney Pollack’s Havana (1990), in which he played gangster Meyer Lansky; and Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending (2002). He later appeared in the comedy Chicanery (2017).