Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this box office smash set in the Old West. The Sundance Kid (Redford) is the frontier's fastest gun. His sidekick, Butch Cassidy (Newman), is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside... Or remember that Sundance can't swim before they escape a posse by leaping off a cliff into rushing rapids...
Times are changing in the west and life is getting tougher. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, don new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head down to Bolivia. Never mind that they don't speak Spanish - they'll manage somehow. A winner of four Academy Awards (including best screenplay and best song), here is a thoroughly enjoyable blend of fact and fancy done with true affection for a bygone era and featuring the two flashiest, friendliest funniest outlaws who ever called out "hands up!"
Directed by
George Roy Hill
Cast
Paul Newman - Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford - Sundance Kid
Katharine Ross - Etta Place
Strother Martin - Percy Garris
Henry Jones - Bike Salesman
Jeff Corey - Sheriff Bledsoe
George Furth - Woodcock
Cloris Leachman - Agnes
Ted Cassidy - Harvey Logan
Kenneth Mars - Marshal
Production Co.
Campanile Productions
Newman-Foreman Productions
Produced by
Paul Monash
John Foreman
Studio
20th Century Fox
Writer
William Goldman
Music
Burt Bacharach
