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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $19.98 Features • Collector's Edition • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 24 October, 1969 DVD Release : 06 June, 2006 |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) description 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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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Entertaining but not a great film |
| It seems to me that this film wants to please all ways it can use. Is it a comedy or is it not? There is no feeling of old west, because the main persons are very modern. I don't understand the meaning of "Raindrops" -ballad in between. It makes everything even more unreal. Actors are good and it is very well done, but I have no feelings for it. I do not care criminals as heroes which makes it impossible to identify. Randoph Scott westerns beat this any day! | |
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