See also: Cassidy

Butch Cassidy and Kid is a Western of George Roy Hill left in 1969.

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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