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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Widescreen Special Edition)

Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford Director: George Roy Hill MPAA Rating: PG
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

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Released the same year as The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid covered similar territory about the end of Western myths, but it expressed its revisionism with tongue firmly in cheek rather than with the brutal violence of Sam Peckinpah's offering. Butch and Sundance never lose their gift for one-liners, even when they have to jump off that gorge; George Roy Hill and screenwriter William Goldman send up the image of outlaws heading south of the border with bank robberies conducted in broken Spanish from crib notes. Still, violence impinges on Butch's and Sundance's world, intimating the fate that modernity held for charming bandits who cannot master a horse-replacing bicycle. The jocularly clear-eyed approach to the pair's exploits, combined with the chemistry between Paul Newman and relative newcomer Robert Redford, vastly appealed to audiences; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became the most popular film of 1969 and won several Oscars, including one for Goldman's script. Like Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, glamorous outlaws Butch and Sundance were in tune with the late-'60s counterculture, but the movie's humor -- and its Oscar-winning Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" -- softened the revisionist blows amid impending tragedy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide


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45-minute documentary
Cast and crew interviews
Audio commentary by George Roy Hill, Hal David, Robert Crawford, and Conrad Hall
Theatrical trailer
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Classic That Is Soon To Fade Along with Its Soundtrack, Aug 20 2003
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The film written by William Goldman and directed by George Roy Hill has a solid cast with Paul Newman playing Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, some of the scenes and soundtrack take away from the fading West of the early 1900s and bring us back to the takcy tastes of the 1970s.

Both Redford and Newman play solid roles as good old western outlaws who are facing the rapid shrinking of the West with the advance of industry. Incessantly fleeing their pursuers, they decide to make their ill-gotten gains in the less-developed regions of the world: Bolivia.

A soundtrack is more often than not just as important as the film itself; "Conan the Barbarian" is a perfect example. It sets the mood of the film and helps guide the story. The la-la music of "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" with happy scenes of bicycle rides really kills what would be a western as classic as Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch"; making it sound more like a Cumbaya flower-child festival than a bank-robbing western. How would people feel if Clint Eastwood had chosen Neil Diamond or the Bee-Gees for "The Unforgiven"? In short, such music selection indicates lack of foresight by those who directed and produced this film. Perhaps it's time for a new rendition of this story with more inspired film-makers who know good music when they hear it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Style and Substance, Jul 16 2004
By G. McDonell "sydneyguy" (Cammeray, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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I remember seeing this movie at the cinema as a kid (many years ago)and being knocked out by how COOL Redford and Sundance were. You know the scene in Blues Brothers, the doorway of the transient mens refuge and the rocket launcher, and they just get up, brush themsleves off, music resumes and go on as if nothing happened. That cool. And so when they get to the stage of being concerned "who ARE those guys" we have substance for the actions they take afterwards. Now watching this movie on DVD with my kids, they didn't get enraptured as I did at their age. As you might guess, not enough action for their generation - and yet, when there is action, it plays with as much emotion as the best of hollywood today. A tremendous cast delivering a tremendous performance, this will always be one of my favorite movies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sticks pretty well to historical fact, Jul 13 2004
By Bob Demers (S. Carolina) - See all my reviews
For one when Butch and sundance are being chased up the mountain by the posse Butch mentions Joe LaFors (sp?). I checked a while ago. LaFors really existed as a lawman at the time. But Etta Place (Kathryn Ross)though she really existed was actually not a school teacher. More likely she was a prostitute.
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