DVD Talk Forum - Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid Ultimate Collector's Edition ---- (2024)

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What was the most famous line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? ›

Butch Cassidy: [low voice, to Sundance] Listen, I don't mean to be a sore loser, but when it's done, if I'm dead, kill him.

TV and stage experience coupled with all-American good looks led to movies and a breakthrough role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), when the actor was 33. The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford No.

The most obvious deviation The Wild Bunch and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid make from the traditional Western is that their heroes are openly outlaws.

The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes, a few implied sex scenes, a few kissing scenes and cleavage revealing outfits, many bank robberies at gunpoint with a few scenes showing people being shot and otherwise injured with some bloody wounds shown, and some strong language.

The Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay #11 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. In 2003, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected by The New York Times as one of The 1000 Best Movies Ever Made.

He subsequently worked on several ranches, in addition to a brief apprenticeship with a butcher in Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, where he got his nickname (by the word "butcher", which morphed later into "Butch"), to which he soon added the last name Cassidy in honor of his old friend and mentor.

Redford is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry.

Though 11 years apart in age, hailing from entirely different parts of the country, Paul Newman and Robert Redford were a big-screen match made in movie heaven.

Robert Redford is the dad of four kids with his ex-wife, Lola Van Wagenen. Get to know the actor's children, James, Shauna, Amy and Scott.

Paul Newman did his own bicycle stunts, after his stuntman was unable to stay on the bike. The only one he didn't do was the scene where Butch crashes backwards into the fence, which was performed by cinematographer Conrad L. Hall.

How historically accurate is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? ›

Many people know of Butch Cassidy from the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, a film that stared Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid. Leerhsen notes that while the movie certainly captured Cassidy and Sundance in spirit, it was not an accurate depiction of their lives.

Longabaugh fled the United States along with his consort Etta Place and Butch Cassidy to escape the dogged pursuit of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. The trio fled first to Argentina and then to Bolivia, where most historians believe Parker (Cassidy) and Longabaugh were killed in a shootout in November 1908.

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love interest, Etta Place (Katharine Ross)—to flee to Bolivia.

Sundance's rash act in Antofa*gasta set in motion the series of events that led, three years later, to their death in a shootout with a Bolivian army unit, fictionalised in the film's famous last scene in which Paul Newman and Robert Redford are freeze-framed as they charge, guns blazing, into a hail of gunfire.

In the mid 1890s, on the Outlaw Trail, Cassidy and Sundance first met. The two men developed a close friendship and learned to trust each other. Butch was the gregarious and charismatic one. The handsome Sundance proved to be quieter, and his quick draw earned him a reputation as the best shot around.

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Contrary to the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in which the outlaws go down in a blaze of glory amid a hail of bullets, it appeared that Cassidy had shot his wounded partner between the eyes before turning the gun on himself.

Nowhere are the idiosyncrasies of the score more evident than in the film's Oscar-winning song “Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head,” which features in a sequence where Butch (Newman) playfully wheels Etta (Katherine Ross) around on a bicycle.

The beautiful and adventurous Etta Place was the love of legendary outlaw duo Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, beginning with the latter before becoming the former's mistress.