Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969
****
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were two real life outlaws who robbed banks and trains in the U.S. and in Bolivia. This entertaining and very popular Western tells their story, and it turned Paul Newman and Robert Redford into movie stars. The film came right after Once Upon a Time in the West and The Wild Bunch, and seems almost like a throwback compared to those trailblaizing genre pieces. William Goldman's screenplay, Conrad L. Hall's cinematography and Burt Bacharach's music, including the memorable "Raindrops Keeps Fallin' on My Head", won Academy Awards.
