Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is a classic western you'll enjoy watching!

“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” was a huge box office success. Taking in over $30 million, it was the highest grossing western movie ever released at that time.  Today (accounting for inflation), it is still one of biggest selling films ever made.

Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) are leaders of the “Hole in the Wall” gang.  Their specialty is robbing.  After stealing money from the train, the owner of the railroad line decides that he has had enough and decides to hire a super-posse to track them down and kill them. 

Realizing that the super-posse is not going away, Cassidy and Sundance decide to move to Bolivia.  They take their ladyfriend, Etta Place (Katharine Ross) with them.  But old habits die hard and they start robbing banks again and continue being tracked by the super-posse.

With a great storyline, outstanding performances and an award-winning soundtrack, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is a classic western that is not to be missed!

• Writer William Golman spent almost eight years working on the screenplay for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”.  He did a lot of research in order to make the film as accurate as possible.  Facts in the movie that are true are:

1. Butch Cassidy never killed anyone until he did so in Bolivia.
2. A super-posse was really formed to hunt them down
3. Butch Cassidy and Sundance did run off to Bolivia
4. There really was an Etta Place who went with them to Bolivia
5. The circumstances and details about their shootout in Bolivia are true

• “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” made Robert Redford a movie star.  When he was cast as Sundance in this movie, he was a virtual unknown.  He became a box office sensation after this film, forever changing his career.

• The real name of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s gang was “The Wild Bunch” but because “The Wild Bunch” movie was being released around the same time, the studio decided not to use this name in the film.  Instead, they changed the outlaw group’s name to “The Hole in the Wall” gang.

• Because of their successful pairing in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, Paul Newman and Robert Redford did another movie together. It was the movie “The Sting” which was also a major box office success.

"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was not only a major box office blockbuster, but also a winner of numerous prestigious awards.

• This western film won four 1970 Academy Awards: Best Writing (William Goldman), Best Original Song Music (Burt Bacharach and Hal David), Best Original Score Music (Burt Bacharach) and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall)

• Nominated for three additional 1970 Academy Awards: Best Picture , Best Director and Best Sound

• Won a 1970 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (Burt Bacharach)

• Nominated for three additional 1970 Golden Globe Awards:  Best Motion Picture, Best Original Song and Best Screenplay

• Selected in 2003 to the Library of Congress National Film Registry which is an honor only bestowed upon 25 movies every year in the United States.