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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1969
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Genres
Biopic Western
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Introduction
“Immensely enjoyable to watch – glowingly photographed, wittily scripted, and with superbly confident performances from Paul Newman and Robert Redford.”
David Wilson, Monthly Film Bulletin, April 1970
“Most of what follows is true,” announces the opening caption, setting the playful tone for this tale of bank-robbing outlaws who find the Old West getting too hot for them, before heading for new pastures in Bolivia.
As that caption suggests, writer William Goldman and director George Roy Hill are less interested in authentic historical atmosphere – or a conclusive answer to the mystery of the real Butch and Sundance’s ultimate fate – than in having fun, with Paul Newman and Robert Redford making a wonderfully relaxed double act.
The laidback 1969 vibe is further enhanced by the hints of ménage à trois with moll Etta Place (Katharine Ross) and music by Burt Bacharach, including the hit song ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’.
The same year’s The Wild Bunch (1969) offered a very different depiction of the dying days of the West. A sequel, Butch and Sundance: The Early Years (1979), starred the young Tom Berenger as Butch.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Butch Cassidy
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The Sundance Kid
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Etta Place
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Percy Garris
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bike salesman
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Sheriff Bledsoe
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Woodcock
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Agnes
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Harvey Logan
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marshal
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Macon
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large woman
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News Carver
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fireman
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Flat Nose Curry
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bank manager
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photographer
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card player 1
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card player 2
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bank teller
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Tiffany's salesman
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Credits
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Second Unit Director
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Assistant Director
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a Newman-Foreman presentation
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Assistant to Producer
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Unit Production Manager
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Director of Photography
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Second Unit Photography
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Special Still Photography
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Special Photographic Effects
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Graphic Montage by
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Film Editor
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Film Editor
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Art Direction
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Set Decoration
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Set Decoration
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Main Title
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Orchestration
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Orchestration
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Sound
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Sound System
Consultant:
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Dialogue Coach
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