Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [Blu-ray]
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543468134
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 3711
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1969
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Description:
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!'
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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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- 3.5 stars out of 4The Bottom Line:
A thoroughly enjoyable movie that gets the most of its stars and locations, ... Read More
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- A Classic WesternThis is a movie that entertains throughout. It has a bit of history, a lot of legend, and nonstop action. ... Read More
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- Blu-ray versus Standard DVD SPECIAL EDITION version!! (explained)This 1969 WESTERN ( Listed as a TOP 100 AFI Film in 1998) CLASSIC is an OUTSTANDING Movie period!!!
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- One of my favorite movies of all timeI love this movie, having watched it many times. When I saw it was coming out in blu-ray I didn't hesitate ... Read More
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- Great movie... don't watch it on free TV thoughThis is one of my favorite movies and I remember watching it for the first time sometime in the 70's and was ... Read More
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