BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID TWO-DISC COLLECTOR'S EDITION
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Two-Disc Collector's Edition
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Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones Director: George Roy Hill Rating: Features: Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Number of Discs: 2 Running Time: 110 minutes Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Release Date: June 6, 2006 Theatrical Release Date: October 24, 1969 Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this box office smash set in the Old West. The Sundance Kid Redford is the frontier's fastest gun. His sidekick Butch Cassidy Newman is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast. If only they could blow open a baggage car without also blowing up the money-filled safe inside... Or remember that Sundance can't swim before they escape a posse by leaping off a cliff into rushing rapids... Times are changing in the west and life is getting tougher. So Butch and Sundance pack their guns don new duds and with Sundance's girlfriend Katharine Ross head down to Bolivia. Never mind that they don't speak Spanish - they'll manage somehow. A winner of four Academy Awards including best screenplay and best song here is a thoroughly enjoyable blend of fact and fancy done with true affection for a bygone era and featuring the two flashiest friendliest funniest outlaws who ever called out "hands up!"System Requirements:Features: Disc 1: Widescreen Feature Commentary #1 by George Roy Hill Lyricist Hal David Associate Producer Robert Crawford and Cinematographer Conrad Hall. Commentary #2 by Screenwriter William Goldman. Disc 2: 2005 documentary ALL OF WHAT FOLLOWS IS TRUE: The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch & Sundance. History through the lens: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time" 1994 documentary: THE MAKING OF BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUDANCE KID" 1994 Interviews Production Notes Alternate Credit Roll Theatrical Trailer #1 Theatrical Trailer #2 Theatrical Trailer #3 The Films of Paul Newman From the Terrace Hombre The Hustler The Long Hot Summer Quintet The Towering Inferno The Verdict What a Way to Go! Running Time: 330 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: PG UPC: 024543244578 Manufacturer No: 2234458
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
