Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 5
With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, jaunty screenplay and Burt Bacharach score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has gone down as among the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, jaunty screenplay and Burt Bacharach score, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has gone down as among the defining moments in late-'60s American cinema.
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Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired
Oct 24, 1969 Wide
May 16, 2000
20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Paul Newman
Butch Cassidy -
Robert Redford
The Sundance Kid -
Katharine Ross
Etta Place -
Strother Martin
Percy Garris -
Henry Jones
Bike Salesman -
Jeff Corey
Sheriff Bledsoe -
George Furth
Woodcock -
Cloris Leachman
Agnes -
Ted Cassidy
Harvey Logan -
Kenneth Mars
Marshal -
Donnelly Rhodes
Macon -
Jo Gilbert
Large Woman -
Timothy Scott
News Carver -
Don Keefer
Fireman -
Charles Dierkop
Flat Nose Curry -
Francisco Cordova
Bank Manager -
Nelson Olmsted
Photographer -
Paul Bryar
Card Player #1 -
Sam Elliott
Card Player #2 -
Charles Akins
Bank Teller -
Eric Sinclair
Tiffany's Salesman
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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (6) | DVD (36)
You have to admire the craft and assurance of the thing even as its artificiality hits you in the face.
Every character, every scene, is marred by the film's double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce.
Top CriticThe John Foreman production is episodic, but George Roy Hill's direction is so satisfying in catching the full value of the Goldman screenplay that a high degree of interest is sustained.
One of the funniest, if slightest, Westerns of recent years.
Top CriticWilliam Goldman's script is constantly too cute and never gets up the nerve, by God, to admit it's a Western.
Very funny in a strictly contemporary way-the last exuberant word on movies about the men of the mythic American West who have outlived their day.
Funny and poignant tale of two famous outlaws.
Fine escapist entertainment.
One of cinema's greatest ever advertisements for pure entertainment...
Although much of its freshness has faded, this still-amusing film reinvented the Western for a new generation.
The Blu-ray does look considerably better than the DVDs. But by way of warning, the audio-video is about as rough as I've seen on a catalog title thus far.
jedan od najboljih kompromisa izme%u0111u "starog" Hollywooda (kojeg simboliziraju klasi%u010Dne panorame zapadnih krajolika) i modernizma oli%u010Denog i u dopadljivoj pop-glazbi Burta Bacharacha
A cool, charming, anachronistic Western, with great chemistry between Newman and Redford, that reimagines the genre for youths of the era by turning the outlaws into mythic figures.
Looking at the film with a totally modern set of eyes, completely detached from the hype of Newman and Redford in the late 60s, I didn't find a connection to the movie.
One could [say] that Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid set the benchmark for buddy action-comedies to come, but there would never be another film that comes even close to exuding the same kind of charm Newman and Redford deliver in their roles.
The 2-disc collector's edition is required viewing for anyone who loves movies and old west history.
...a smooth combination of humor and warm personal relationships. (Ultimate Collector's Edition)
iconic, American experience, a classic adventure tale, and a singular slice of late-'60s moviemaking that has never really been repeated
Audience Reviews for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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- Etta Place: I won't watch you die...
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- Butch Cassidy: I haven´t shot anybody!
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- Butch Cassidy: I get sick being right all the time.
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- Large Woman: I'm a grandmother and a female and I've got my rights!...You can bull all the others but you can't bull me. I've fought whiskey and I've fought gambling, and I can certainly fight you.
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- Butch Cassidy: You know, when I was a kid, I always thought I was gonna grow up to be a hero.
- The Sundance Kid: Well, it's too late now.
- Butch Cassidy: hat'd you say something like that for? You didn't have to say something like that.
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- Butch Cassidy: Boy, y'know, every time I see 'Hole in the Wall' again, it's like seeing it fresh for the first time, and every time that happens, I keep asking myself the same question, 'How can I be so damn stupid as to keep comin' back here?'
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