Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.
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Awesome outlaw movie, appeared at the time where westerns were truly evolving into the more shooter oriented movies than the classic story of a sheriff or gunslinger who had to save the day, the film encompasses peaceful moments and violent moments and puts them together with great effect. in most westerns nothing in the plot ever evolves usually but the main objective and maybe a few friendships between the good guys. this is a great movie to show the outlaw side of the western genre
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of the Hole In The Wall Gang, a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong the find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heals. Their solution - escape to Bolivia!Superb movie. While having the appearances of a western it's more than that. Quite funny and many of the themes could have played out in any era. If anything, it captures the end of the old Wild West.Great performances by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in the lead roles. So good was the Newman-Redford combination that, four years later, director George Roy Hill reunited them for another of his movies, The Sting.
There are some good things in this movie, a clever montage scene using what appear to be old stock photographs (for most younger movie audiences the scene probably goes on too long, but that wasn't a problem for me) and some clever and/or funny dialogue, but there is a minority camp that doesn't like this movie and I'm in that camp, and we're all in it for the same reason: this is an incredibly smug movie.
Maybe the most entertaining movie ever made. It's violent but it doesn't matter. There's more music in it than "Paint Your Wagon". But it doesn't matter. Western fans like . Lay people love it. I can't explain it. I guess a lot of the credit goes to George Roy Hill. It's a true classic.