| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Movie Name | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
| Director | George Roy Hill |
| Writer | William Goldman |
| Lead Actor | Paul Newman |
| Cast | Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars |
| Genre | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western |
| Release Date | September 23, 1969 (USA) |
| Duration | 1h 50m (110 minutes) |
| Budget | $6 million USD |
| Box Office | $102.3 million USD (worldwide) |
| Language | English |
| IMDb Rating | 8.0/10 |
One thing’s for certain, and that’s after starting this movie blog, I’m beginning to plow through all the classics and must sees that I’ve been missing out on. After looking my list of unseen movies, it was recommended to me that I’d enjoy Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid the most.
I’ll watch anything with Paul Newman in it (and I’ll pour anything on my salad if it comes out of a bottle with his face on it). He and Robert Redford are a perfect duo as Butch and Sundance. It makes me want to see The Sting again. Hell, I say team them up again for Grumpy Old Men 3.
What I absolutely loved is that the script is so smart and funny without being bombastic like most of today’s comedies. The dialogue is subtle and the characters manage to be snarky and loveable at the same time without uttering a single “Daaaaamn!” which seems to be the prerequisite line for incorrigible scamps these days (in the remake you just know Sundance is going to be played by Queen Latifah).
When you’ve got Redford and Newman on screen, the rest of the cast is pretty disposable, and Katherine Ross’s character isn’t really any different it’s the meatiest of any secondary character in the film, but she really just amounts to being a pretty face as opposed to having any real emotional function in the story. If anything she deserves mention for just being such a hottie in the first place.
I’m definitely in the mood for some more Westerns now. My film knowledge of the genre consists primarily of The Magnificent Seven and Back to the Future 3, so I know I have lots of ground to cover. Perhaps some Clint Eastwood is in order (I’ve seen The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, but not the other two films in that trilogy).
As for Butch and Sundance, I would have given this movie five stars, but it loses half a point for indulging in something that I cannot ignore having the film’s opening credits set in Hobo.
Call me a font snob, but that shit ain’t right.
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