Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Theatrical Release Date: 1969 09 23 (USA) / 2013 01 30 (USA - Rerelease)

UPC: 024543468134

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity, Western Violence]

Summary: Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and Sundance decide that maybe it's time to try their luck in Bolivia. Taking Etta with them, they live high on ill-gotten Bolivian gains, but Etta leaves after their white-hatted nemesis portentously arrives. Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to make one last run for it. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Category: Western

Awards: Anthony Asquith Award – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actor – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Actress – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Cinematography – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Director – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Picture – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Editing – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Screenplay – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Soundtrack – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Soundtrack – British Academy of Film and Television Arts Best Soundtrack – British Academy of Film and Television Arts 100 Greatest American Movies – American Film Institute Best Director – Directors Guild of America Best Picture - Drama – null Best Screenplay – null Best Original Score – null Best Original Song – null Best Original Song – null Best Cinematography – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Director – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Picture – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Score – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Song – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Sound – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Drama – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Song – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Original Score – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Screenplay – Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Features: cc
Commentary by Director George Roy Hill, Lyricist Hal David, Documentary Director Robert Crawford Jr., and Cinematographer Conrad Hall
Commentary by Screenwriter William Goldman
All Of What Follows Is True: The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid documentary
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch & Sundance featurette
Deleted scenes with Optional Director's Commentary
Original Teaser and Trailers

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/13/2008

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cinemascope

Audio: DTS-ESM Digital Theater Pseudo 6.1 System, DD1 Dolby Digital Mono

Runtime: 110 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,Spanish,French

Subtitles: English,Spanish

Lucia Bozzola

Released the same year as The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid covered similar territory about the end of Western myths, but it expressed its revisionism with tongue firmly in cheek rather than with the brutal violence of Sam Peckinpah's offering. Butch and Sundance never lose their gift for one-liners, even when they have to jump off that gorge; George Roy Hill and screenwriter William Goldman send up the image of outlaws heading south of the border with bank robberies conducted in broken Spanish from crib notes. Still, violence impinges on Butch's and Sundance's world, intimating the fate that modernity held for charming bandits who cannot master a horse-replacing bicycle. The jocularly clear-eyed approach to the pair's exploits, combined with the chemistry between Paul Newman and relative newcomer Robert Redford, vastly appealed to audiences; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid became the most popular film of 1969 and won several Oscars, including one for Goldman's script. Like Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, glamorous outlaws Butch and Sundance were in tune with the late-'60s counterculture, but the movie's humor -- and its Oscar-winning Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" -- softened the revisionist blows amid impending tragedy. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Burt Bacharach  Composer (Music Score) 
John C. Foreman  Producer 
William Goldman  Screenwriter 
George Roy Hill  Director 
Paul Monash  Executive Producer 
Paul Newman  Actor 
Robert Redford  Actor 
Katharine Ross  Actor 
Strother Martin  Actor 
Henry Jones  Actor 
Jeff Corey  Actor 
George Furth  Actor 
Cloris Leachman  Actor 
Ted Cassidy  Actor 
Kenneth Mars  Actor 
Donnelly Rhodes  Actor 
Jo Gilbert  Actor 
Timothy Scott  Actor 
Don Keefer  Actor 
Charles Dierkop  Actor 
Francisco Cordova  Actor 
Nelson Olmsted  Actor 
Paul Bryar  Actor 
Sam Elliott  Actor 
Charles Akins  Actor 
Eric Sinclair  Actor 

Country: USA