Urban legend has it that Robert Redford was so chagrined by the impact his cinematographic masterpiece “A River Runs Through It” had on southwest Montana he wouldn’t include locations in the credits for his subsequent film “The Horse Whisperer”, shot mostly near Big Timber.

Dennis Aig, who worked on both movies with the Academy Award-winning director, said Redford never acknowledged as much to him personally. Even so, he wouldn’t be surprised if it crossed his mind.

“I actually asked Bob about it once,” Aig, who recently retired as a professor in Montana State University’s School of Film and Photography, said of “A River Runs Through It” and the small-budget, independent movie’s transformative effect on the region.

“He said — and I’m paraphrasing — ‘If I thought the film was going to br

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