Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey
Synopsis:
In the closing days of the Old West, two outlaws find their past catching up with them and the future leaving them behind; so they cut out and head to Bolivia for a fresh start.
Review:
Both one of those 'dying breed' westerns of which The Wild Bunch is a more brutal example, and the culmination of the Sixties penchant for smart caper movies and genre rule breaking. Hence we have a pair of heroes who are the most likeable outlaws you ever saw and talk as though they worked in one of those newspaper movies of the Thirties. It worked supremely well, not least because it is tightly written; but it is also directed with tremendous style and verve and nonchalantly carried by its leads. It set a fashion for star teamings and these two reunited with Hill for The Sting, but it is in a class of its own. (cf. Lester's amiable prequel Butch and Sundance: the Early Days.)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey
Synopsis:
In the closing days of the Old West, two outlaws find their past catching up with them and the future leaving them behind; so they cut out and head to Bolivia for a fresh start.
Review:
Both one of those 'dying breed' westerns of which The Wild Bunch is a more brutal example, and the culmination of the Sixties penchant for smart caper movies and genre rule breaking. Hence we have a pair of heroes who are the most likeable outlaws you ever saw and talk as though they worked in one of those newspaper movies of the Thirties. It worked supremely well, not least because it is tightly written; but it is also directed with tremendous style and verve and nonchalantly carried by its leads. It set a fashion for star teamings and these two reunited with Hill for The Sting, but it is in a class of its own. (cf. Lester's amiable prequel Butch and Sundance: the Early Days.)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 110m
Director: George Roy Hill
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey
Synopsis:
In the closing days of the Old West, two outlaws find their past catching up with them and the future leaving them behind; so they cut out and head to Bolivia for a fresh start.
Review:
Both one of those 'dying breed' westerns of which The Wild Bunch is a more brutal example, and the culmination of the Sixties penchant for smart caper movies and genre rule breaking. Hence we have a pair of heroes who are the most likeable outlaws you ever saw and talk as though they worked in one of those newspaper movies of the Thirties. It worked supremely well, not least because it is tightly written; but it is also directed with tremendous style and verve and nonchalantly carried by its leads. It set a fashion for star teamings and these two reunited with Hill for The Sting, but it is in a class of its own. (cf. Lester's amiable prequel Butch and Sundance: the Early Days.)