Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones
directed by: George Roy Hill
directed by: George Roy Hill
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Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 05/13/2008Run time: 110 minutesRating: Pg
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This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and, finally, Bolivia. Weakened a little by feel-good inclinations (a scene involving bicycle tricks and the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is sort of Hollywood flower power), the movie maintains an interesting tautness, and the chemistry between Redford and Newman is rare. (A factoid: Newman first offered the Sundance part to Jack Lemmon.) --Tom Keogh
Studio: TcfheRelease Date: 05/13/2008Run time: 110 minutesRating: Pg
Amazon.com essential video:
This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and, finally, Bolivia. Weakened a little by feel-good inclinations (a scene involving bicycle tricks and the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is sort of Hollywood flower power), the movie maintains an interesting tautness, and the chemistry between Redford and Newman is rare. (A factoid: Newman first offered the Sundance part to Jack Lemmon.) --Tom Keogh
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Rating: 
- Butch Cassidy
Quite entertaining, good acting by two top stars, though the story is loosely based on fact.
Rating: 
- Great Movie, poor Blu-ray transfer
The colors look artificial and the contrast is pumped up so nothing looks natural.This is most unfortunate, since this great movie did win an Oscar for the best cinematography.
Rating: - rocks
This was the first "buddy" film to follow up on the door opened by Bogie and Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca".
What a brilliant script... what brilliant acting... what brilliant directing!
The dialog is perfect but what really makes this film a classic is the interaction between Newman and Redford.
Rating: 
- you can't go back
I saw this movie in the theatre when it came out back in the late sixties and laughed till I cried.Watched it when I got the dvd and was totally bored with it.Goes to show howyour taste in movies changes over the years.It is still a classic all time great movie-I just couldn't sit thru it 40 years later.
Rating: - Best Film ever!
Are you kidding me! It doesn't get ay better than Butch and Sundance. Shame they don't make 'em like this anymore!
- Butch CassidyQuite entertaining, good acting by two top stars, though the story is loosely based on fact.
- Great Movie, poor Blu-ray transferThe colors look artificial and the contrast is pumped up so nothing looks natural.This is most unfortunate, since this great movie did win an Oscar for the best cinematography.
- rocksThis was the first "buddy" film to follow up on the door opened by Bogie and Claude Rains at the end of "Casablanca".
What a brilliant script... what brilliant acting... what brilliant directing!
The dialog is perfect but what really makes this film a classic is the interaction between Newman and Redford.
- you can't go backI saw this movie in the theatre when it came out back in the late sixties and laughed till I cried.Watched it when I got the dvd and was totally bored with it.Goes to show howyour taste in movies changes over the years.It is still a classic all time great movie-I just couldn't sit thru it 40 years later.
- Best Film ever!Are you kidding me! It doesn't get ay better than Butch and Sundance. Shame they don't make 'em like this anymore!
