1969 - BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - a slick film

 20th Century Fox's big hit.  It was directed by George Roy Hill a fairly decent director.  William Goldman wrote the script which he sold for $400,000 dollars, one of the highest paid scripts at the time.

The film is supposed to be the story of two real life bank robbers and it sort of follows the facts of their lives. Goldman added a lot of humor to the story and at times the film has a real case of the cutes.

Paul Newman mugs shamelessly, Robert Redford finally becomes a leading man in Hollywood and Katherine Ross looks pretty but doesn't really make an impression as Etta Place, who is playing the Sundance Kid's girlfriend.

 

All and all this is a very slick film extremely well made and kind of heartless.  Everyone is having so much fun goofing on this story that maybe a little more substance would have been nice.  Still the film does have a lot of the entertainment qualities that made it an audience favorite back in the late 60's

Running time 110 minutes.