Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Directed by

George Roy Hill

Genre

Western film, biographical film, comedy drama, buddy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 2,490 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two charismatic outlaws keep robbing trains and then running from a relentless posse that chases them across the American West. With the help of the Sundance Kid's girlfriend, they eventually flee to Bolivia hoping to start over.

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What happens

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia to escape the posse. The film was released on September 24, 1969, and while initial reviews from critics were lukewarm, it has since seen a positive retrospective reappraisal. In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 73rd-greatest American film on its "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list, and number 50 on the original list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th-greatest heroes on "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains". Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th-greatest Western of all time in the AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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