The Old Man & the Gun - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[norma]

The real Forrest Tucker eventually found out that he had children even though the movie never addresses the matter.

[liam]

While Robert Redford announced this movie would be his final film role, he reprised his role as villain Alexander Pierce in 2019's Avengers: Endgame (2019).

[jesse]

Shooting the chase scene with the '57 Chevy was David Lowery's way of paying homage to Two-Lane Blacktop (1971).

[janice]

When Forrest Tucker settled into a happy life with third wife Jewell Centers in 1993, she, unlike her movie counterpart played by Sissy Spacek, had no idea of her husband's criminal career until his 80s arrest in 1999, thinking he was a stock broker named Bob Callahan.

[nina]

Although he receives fourth billing, Keith Carradine's role was almost completely dropped; he appears for literally three or four seconds with a single line of dialogue. (Director David Lowery has stated the cut footage will be included on the DVD.)

[aaron]

The other members of the Over-The-Hill Gang were John Waller (played by Tom Waits), who'd escaped maximum-security San Quentin with Tucker in 1979; another man with whom they'd built a boat from smuggled supplies and nearly made it past the guard tower before high waves capsized them; a guard who saw their hand-painted outfits and overturned kayak was won over by a joke Tucker made, and let them go on their way; and Teddy Green (played by Danny Glover), an escape artist and fellow bank robber Tucker met during his 1950s stint in Alcatraz.

[morris]

Filmed in Hamilton, Ohio; Dayton, Ohio; Waco, Texas; Ft. Worth, Texas. Filmed in Bethel, Ohio on April 4, 2017 at the Midway Theater and Wichard Oil gas station.

[eli]

The shot of Robert Redford on the horse with a line of cop cars speeding in the distance was David Lowery's idea. For at a certain point while writing the chase scene, Lowery felt like he needed to take this pursuit further, leave reality behind, enter the symbolic realm and once again let Redford's status as a legend take precedence in the sequence. Also according to Lowery, it was one of those rare moments on set where you just feel like you're watching a little bit of history happen in front of you.

[jessie]

Real life main character is not related to the late, great character actor Forrest Tucker (1919-1986).

[wallace]

The script is based on David Grann's 2003 article in The New Yorker titled "The Old Man and the Gun", which was later collected in Grann's book "The Devil and Sherlock Holmes".

[janice]

There are several "Easter egg" references to Robert Redford's earlier films, including the opening legend, which is nearly identical to the one that opens Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) ("Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true") and the scene between Redford and Casey Affleck, where Affleck runs a finger over the side of his nose, which was the signal in The Sting (1973) between the con men that they were fellow-travelers.

[caroline]

The real Forrest Tucker died in prison on May 29, 2004.

[wesley]

In the hospital scene, John Hunt (Casey Affleck) as he leaves the room of Forrest Tucker (Robert Redford) swipes the side of his nose with his left index finger. The same gesture occurs several times in The Sting (1973) by among others Redford, Paul Newman, and Harold Gould's characters as an nonverbal acknowledgment that "I see you and I'm here and ready for The Sting."