George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy (1969) [DVD5 PAL]

George Roy Hill - Butch Cassidy (1969) [DVD5 PAL]


Original title Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Country of manufacture United States of America
Year 1969
Duration 106 min
Adventure, biopic, western genre
Directed by George Roy Hill
Subject William Goldman
William Goldman Screenplay
Producer John Foreman
Executive producer Paul Monash
Production company Campanile Productions Inc.
Photograph Conrad Hall
Editing John C. Howard,
Richard C. Meyer
Special Effects L. B. Abbott,
Art Cruickshank
Music by Burt Bacharach

Interpreters and characters

Paul Newman: Butch Cassidy
Robert Redford: Sundance Kid
Katharine Ross: Etta Place
Strother Martin: Percy Garris
Henry Jones: bicycle salesman
Jeff Corey: Sheriff Rey Bledsoe
George Furth: Woodcock
Cloris Leachman: Agnes
Ted Cassidy: Harvey Logan
Kenneth Mars: Marshal
Donnelly Rhodes: Macon
Jody Gilbert: fat woman
Timothy Scott: News Carver
Charles Dierkop: Flat Nose Curry
Francisco Cordova: bank manager
Nelson Olmstead: photographer
Don Keefer: firefighter
Paul Bryar: first card player
Sam Elliott: second card player
Charles Akins: man at the bank counter
Eric Sinclair: jeweler

Language: English Italian
Subtitles: English Italian


Butch Cassidy (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is a 1969 film directed by George Roy Hill.

In 2003 he was chosen for conservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in fiftieth place in the ranking of the best one hundred US films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it fell to seventy-third place.
Wyoming, late 19th century. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two skilled outlaws and robbers from the Old West who are part of the "Wild Bunch" gang, are professionals in train assaults and expert marksmen, especially Kid, who is regarded as one of the fastest gunslingers in the world. epoch. The two, in search of new places to rob and chased by fearsome sheriffs for days, decide to flee to Bolivia.

Once they arrive, Kid, hoping to find a thriving town full of people to rob, is disappointed by the sparse landscape and, after a quick robbery, the couple are recognized and chased by the local police. Butch and Kid take refuge in an old abandoned farmhouse and, after being wounded by the threatening encirclement of the Bolivian gendarmerie, they realize they are now doomed but, determined not to give up, they come out and launch into a desperate shooting.