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DVD Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Special Edition)
This 1969 film has never lost its popularity or its unusual appeal as a star-driven Western that tinkers with the genre's conventions and comes up with something both terrifically entertaining and--typical of its period--a tad paranoid. Paul Newman plays the legendary outlaw Butch Cassidy as an eternal optimist and self-styled visionary, conjuring dreams of banks just ripe for the picking all over the world. Robert Redford is his more levelheaded partner, the sharpshooting Sundance Kid. The film, written by William Goldman (The Princess Bride) and directed by George Roy Hill (The Sting), basically begins as a freewheeling story about robbing trains but soon becomes a chase as a relentless posse--always seen at a great distance like some remote authority--forces Butch and Sundance into the hills and, finally, Bolivia. Weakened a little by feel-good inclinations (a scene involving bicycle tricks and the song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" is sort of Hollywood flower power), the movie maintains an interesting tautness, and the chemistry between Redford and Newman is rare. (A factoid: Newman first offered the Sundance part to Jack Lemmon.) --Tom Keogh
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Great movie...awful sound!
I saw this movie when it came out and loved it. It is a must see movie with fine performances by Newman & Redford. With that said, be aware that dispite the discription of the film here at Amazon, the movie is NOT Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound. It is Dolby Digital Mono sound. If you have a decent home theater, you will be disappointed in the sound quality....the movie however is GREAT!
The next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia.....
Wow!!! One of my top 100 movies. Paul Newman plays the dark humored Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford plays the grimmly straight Sundance Kid.
Butch and Sundance were famous train robbers from the early 20th century on the edge of the last hey day of the truly wild west. The Union Pacific Railroad hired a select group of lawmen to hunt down and kill or capture. (Let's be honest Kill) The two Outlaws. The Outlaws were never heard from again. Some believe that they went to Bolivia and were killed by the Bolivian Army.
This movie tracks the final days of Butch and Sundance. Uproariously funny. No matter how dark the sitiuation, these two outlaws manage to drop a darkly humorous line. This is the kind of movie that you and your friends will quote often. A tad violent for children, but on the upside no cussing. I highly recommend this movie.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
What can u say when u look into the gorgeous eyes of Newman and the sexy blue of Redfords and add some of the funniest dialogue between 2 friends that would DIE FOR EACH OTHER There is not another western, drama, action-whatever catagory u want to put it in that can beat it. Ladies, you have two of the machoest men in movies along with a great script u will love it. And I'm not a western fan. I am a horsewoman and boy, they can sit a horse!! When Sundance asks, when his skill as a gunman is tested. "Can I move?" (after having to shoot a coin laying about 50 feet away and failing dismally) then giving the go ahead. blasts that coin all over Bolivia, u want him to move and enjoy every minute of this otherwise serious man. "I do better when I move" Too many scenes to pick from but one while Butch is entwined in the arms of Cloris Leachman good old Sundance runs right over the bed and them to warn Butch the men that have been trailing them are outside. Good thing Butch had his boots off.Watch and see why. And guys you'll roar at how 2 Wanted Dead or Alive bandits live their lives and love it. I know they got away, even from the entire Bolivian army, and wish I knew how they lived out the rest of their days!! You can bet they had fun! And your kids can watch it.
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