Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

You never met a pair like Butch & The Kid

BUTCH CASSIDY & THE SUNDANCE KID (PG)

D: George Roy Hill

20th Century Fox/Campanile (Paul Monash & John Foreman)

USA 🇺🇸 1969

112 mins

Western

W: William Goldman

DP: Conrad L. Hall

Ed: John C. Howard & Richard C. Meyer

Mus: Burt Bacharach

PD: Jack Martin Smith & Philip Jeffries

Cos: Edith Head

Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy), Robert Redford (The Sundance Kid), Katherine Ross (Etta Place), Strother Martin (Percy Garris), Jeff Corey (Sheriff Bledsoe), George Furth (Woodcock), Cloris Leachman (Agnes), Ted Cassidy (Harvey Logan)

One of the definitive Westerns of all time, mainly due to the on-screen partnership of Paul Newman & Robert Redford as the Wild West outlaws, no less helped by the cracking dialogue of William Goldman's screenplay.

It's rare genius for a movie to make you root for the bad guys, and you certainly do here, especially at the film's climax.

The only narrative slack arrives in a scene involving Paul Newman, Katharine Ross, a bicycle and the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head", ironically one of the film's most memorable scenes, along with the brilliant "I can't swim" classic scene and the final shoot-out in Bolivia.

9/10

Paul Newman & Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid