Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Director: George Roy Hill Run Time: 111 min. Release Year: 1969
Starring: Henry Jones, Katharine Ross, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Strother Martin
Remembering Robert Redford (1936-2025)
In one of Robert Redford’s defining roles, he teams with Paul Newman to portray the real-life outlaws from 1890s Wyoming. Redford’s role as Sundance would inspire the name of the iconic film festival and institute he founded, forever changing American independent cinema. With William Goldman’s script, and Conrad Hall’s cinematography, both receiving Oscars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stands as one of the greatest Western films of all time.
“Like Butch Cassidy, like no other, the film grants and gains from Paul Newman a performance to match the presence, a cresting achievement in a career whose disappointments have been less frequent than many and almost always with honor. Redford, whose contribution to the shrewdly timed comic interchanges with Newman are crucial and precise, profits most, with the best role he has had since ‘Barefoot in the Park’… one by which his stardom may at last be defined.” ~ John Mahoney, The Hollywood Reporter
Screening 1/23 + 1/26