Butch Cassidy and Kid

Synopsis

Butch Cassidy and its assistant Sundance Kid is plunderers of banks and trains. Tired to see its devalized convoys, the “Pacific Union” ends up urging the agency of detective Pinkerton in order to put an end to their intrigues. At the end of a tracking of several days, the two accomplices manage to sow their prosecutors and decide to be made forget while taking refuge in Bolivia.

Data sheet

Title: Butch Cassidy and Kid
original Title: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Realization: George Roy Hill
Scenario: William Goldman and George Roy Hill (not credited)
Production: John Foreman
Music: Burt Bacharach
Photography: Conrad L. Hall
Assembly: John C. Howard and Richard C. Meyer
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Black and white (Sepiatone)/Colors (DeLuxe) - 2,35:1 - Mono - 35 mm
Kind: Western
Lasted: 110 minutes (1h50)
Comings out date: September 24th 1969 (the USA), 1974 (France)
All public

Distribution

Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford: Sundance Kid
Katharine Ross : Etta Places
Strother Martin: Percy Garris
Henry Jones: the salesman of bicycles
Jeff Corey: the sheriff Steve Bledsoe
George Furth: Woodcock
Cloris Leachman : Agnes
Ted Cassidy: Harvey Logan
Kenneth Mars: the Marshall L
Donnelly Rhodos: Mason

Rewards

Oscar of photography to Conrad L. Hall
Oscar of the music to Burt Bacharach
Oscar for the song Raindrops keep fallin' one my head of Burt Bacharach and Hall David
BAFTA of the best film

Around film

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Simple: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

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