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  DVD Review - Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Based on the real life of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the film manages to keep audiences enthralled for its entire running length and paints a harsh, yet romantic, picture of the Wild West on the brink of becoming less wild than it used to be.
Butch Cassidy (a cool Paul Newman) is the leader of the "Hole In The Wall Gang," a group of desperados who have specialized on robbing banks for a living.
Butch and Sundance are suddenly running from a small hand-picked group of sheriffs and trackers.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/butch_cassidy_and_the_sundance_kid.shtml   (1530 words)

  
 Outlaws & Lawmen
Butch switched from honest labor (mine employee, butcher, cowboy) to outlaw activities, and became part of an outlaw stronghold of brown's Hole, a rugged mountain camp at the Green River, bordering Utah, Colorado and Wyoming.
Butch was sentenced to two years in the Wyoming State Prison in 1892 for cattle rustling.
Sundance, according to one version, married Etta and lived for years in Mexico and New Mexico and then died in 1957 at the age of 96.
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 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy was born Robert LeRoy Parker, the eldest of thirteen children in a Mormon family, on April 13, 1866, in Beaver, Utah.
The Sundance Kid was born Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, the youngest of five children in a Baptist family, in the spring of 1867 in Mont Clare, Pennsylvania.
Butch, Sundance, and their comrades in arms may have been wild, but they were never much of a bunch.
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 AudioRevolution.com DVD Review of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Butch was first portrayed on screen by Slim Whitaker in 1933's 'Deadwood Pass,' and over the years by John Doucette, Gene Evans, Howard Petrie, Neville Brand (twice), Arthur Hunnicutt and John Crawford.
It's a comic poem spun out of some of the elements of the lives of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; some of what we see did happen, but not much of it, and what is true is altered for purposes of the movie.
The deviations from the expected stuff gave 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' a fresh, roguish air; it was a Western with a twinkle in its eye but also a sad, wry grin -- this, too, shall pass away.
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 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid: Special Edition (1969)
With the West becoming civilized, two aging outlaws, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford), leave their Hole-in-the-Wall Gang to head for a better life in Bolivia, but they're trailed by thugs hired by the owner of a train they robbed one too many times.
Sundance depends more on the chemistry of the stars than does the later film, which is fine since it works well, but does mean that the plot seems a little thinner.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid isn't a great movie, but I found it to offer a fair amount of fun and entertainment, mainly sparked by the strong chemistry of its stars.
www.dvdmg.com /butchsundance.shtml   (2020 words)

  
 Bolivia Web - The Outsiders - Butch Cassidy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Butch Cassidy was christened Robert Leroy Parker by his Mormon pioneer parents.
Most historians believe that Butch and Sundance died in a shoot-out in San Vincente, a town in southern Bolivia, where they had fled after robbing the payroll of the Aramayo Mining Co. that was being carried on a mule.
Telamayu: a mining town very close to the spot where Cassidy and Sundance Kid robbed the payroll money of the Aramayo Mining Co that was being carried on a mule.
www.boliviaweb.com /outsiders/butch.htm   (402 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: The Ultimate Collector's Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Butch Cassidy, on the other hand, is sort of a lark, a carefree jaunt through outlaw territory as the titular characters banter back and forth in serio-comic fashion, always just one step ahead of the law — and one step away from death.
Goldman clearly enjoyed the myth-shattering possibilities of his story, where the iconic Butch Cassidy actually prefers to flee from danger rather than stand and fight, and where the sharp-shooting Sundance is afraid of water because he can't swim.
Fox's special edition DVD of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid features a solid anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) from a nearly pristine source print that is rich with color, while audio is available in the original mono.
www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/butchcassidy_uce.q.shtml   (745 words)

  
 BBC - Crime Case Closed - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There is no final conclusion to the last days of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and it is for this reason that they are still so well known today.
But Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid do remain a legend and there are many theories about their final days.
One was that Butch and Sundance had gone out in a 'blaze of glory', but it was also suggested that Butch shot Sundance before turning the gun on himself.
www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/butchcassidy.shtml   (1470 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
Rivaling Jesse James and Billy the Kid as the most celebrated outlaw of the American West is Butch Cassidy, a true master at the art of robbing banks and trains.
An icon of the “gentleman bandit,” Cassidy’s claim of never having killed a single person may indeed be true.
Cassidy grew in popularity during the 20th century and his fame was greatly amplified when Paul Newman brought him to Hollywood in 1969’s wildly successful Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/cassidy/1.html   (715 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 Western film which tells the story of two lighthearted outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid who seem more inclined to trade quips than shots.
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, the leaders of the famous Hole in the Wall Gang, are planning another bank robbery.
Butch and Sundance are unaware of their situation, instead discussing where they'll be going next.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Butch_Cassidy_and_the_Sundance_Kid   (1235 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch and Sundance are easy-going, non-violent bank robbers until a railroad tycoon's vendetta chases them to the wilds of Bolivia and their luck runs out.
The film characters of Butch and Sundance had their "roots in the rebellious sixties, in which a disgruntled younger generation made heroes out of social outcasts and even outlaws." (Andreychuk).
Butch and Sundance are doomed romantics, destroyed by an impersonal force, as were many sixties heroes.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDButchCassidySundanceKid.htm   (1218 words)

  
 Review: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy went on to gross nearly $100 million at the box office (an astounding total at that time) and earned seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), of which it won four (Cinematography, Score, Song, and Original Screenplay).
The real Butch Cassidy, whose given name was Robert Leroy Parker, was an outlaw at a time in the Old West when modern day civilization and technology were making gunslinging gangsters obsolete.
When a "super posse" was formed to capture them, Butch and Sundance, along with Sundance's girlfriend, Etta Place (who was either a schoolteacher or a prostitute, depending upon the information's source), headed south to Bolivia, where they lived in relative peace and seclusion for several years.
www.reelviews.net /movies/b/butch_cassidy.html   (1850 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy was born in Utah as Robert LeRoy Parker on April 13, 1866.
Butch and Sundance, using another alias, chatted their way into the house of a Scottish engineer who lived in Verdugo, 15 miles south of Tupiza.
This is also the square were Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made their plans to hold-up that payroll transport.
www.bolivia.freehosting.net /Butch.htm   (2078 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid--Wyoming Tales and Trails
The other two, now believed to have been Butch Cassidy and Elzy Lay, were never arrested for the robbery.
The three cowboys, now believed to be Butch Cassidy, Elzy Lay, and possibly a cowboy named Fowler, accompanied by several others, rode off to the south pursued by Caffey in a buggy; an unarmed citizen on horseback shouting, "Bring that money back"; and by a switch engine loaded with an impromtu posse.
Nixon averred that Cassidy was not one of the robbers.
www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com /butch2.html   (1368 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
This truth becomes clear to Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) when their robbery and getaway tricks no longer work in the United States.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is an early buddy movie.
Set in and around Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains (map), beautiful vistas and sweeping valleys are showcased as Butch and Sundance make a getaway from the unseen stock detective; Joe Lafors.
www.couchcowboy.com /Mustsees/Butch.htm   (349 words)

  
 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID - SPECIAL EDITION DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Act two sees Butch (Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) on the lam from a merciless Superposse, joined, at some point, by Etta Place, The Kid's schoolteacher girlfriend.
By act three, Etta, Butch and Sundance have retreated to Bolivia, where they begin anew their life of crime as bank thieves, and then entertain, briefly, the straight life.
Butch, a smiley 'good-time Charlie', and Sudance, the 'Quick Draw McGraw'/'Man with no Name' figure, were a complementary and eternal duo in real-life, if we're to believe the parchments: his strengths were the other's weaknesses, and vice versa.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/butchandsundance.htm   (797 words)

  
 Butch & Sundance Bibliography
Recounts the December 1905 holdup of the Banco de la Nación in Villa Mercedes de San Luis, Argentina, by Butch, Sundance, Etta, and an unidentified companion; the tenacious pursuit of the bandits by several posses; the sardonic newspaper coverage of the crime and the pursuit; and the bandits' escape across the border to Chile.
Covered the exhumation of a grave in San Vicente, Bolivia, reputed to be that of Butch and Sundance, and the scientific analysis of the remains found in the grave.
Presented an overview of Butch and Sundance's years in South America, with a focus on the exhumation of the San Vicente, Bolivia, grave in which they were mistakenly reported to have been buried.
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 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy) had his first with the law, when on June 24, 1889, he joined Tom McCarty, Matt Warmer, and Bart Madden in a robbery of the Telluride, Colorado bank for $10,000.
He believed that Butch and Sundance were just biding their time before they started banditry in South America.
Butch and Sundance had hired on at the mines.
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 Hole in the Wall Butch Cassidy Sundance Kid outlaw history
Toward the end of the century Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch joined the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, making this one of the foremost outlaw headquarters along the outlaw trail.
There's no record that Cassidy ever killed anyone, and many tales about his cunning and kindness persist.
Guests can picnic beneath the old cottonwoods and soak their feet in Buffalo Creek, where Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid undoubtedly cooled their heels after out-running the posse.
www.willowcreekranch.com /hole.html   (416 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Widescreen): DVD: George Roy Hill,Paul Newman,Robert Redford,Katharine ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Widescreen) (1969)
Butch's character is lively and adventuresome in a blatant way that is not present in Western heroes.
Butch and Sundance are in pursuit of the old west at the same time the new era is chasing them (in the form of faceless lawmen always at a distance).
www.amazon.ca /Butch-Cassidy-Sundance-Kid-Widescreen/dp/B00003RQNJ   (2085 words)

  
 GreenCine | product main - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style.
After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend Etta (Katharine Ross), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime.
Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to make one last run for it.
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 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Temporarily flush, Butch and Sundance push their luck by lazing on a hotel balcony while down below the Sheriff tries to organise a reluctant posse to hunt the gang down.
While Butch and Sundance manage to get away, their foes are right on their trail, relentlessly following through day and night.
When Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid puts all of these elements together, the result is a dream of a movie which imprints itself on your memory.
www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Butch_Sundance.html   (898 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - Shakefire.com Contest
Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.
Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill.
The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run
www.shakefire.com /contests/butchcassidyandthesundancekid.html   (107 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (The Ultimate Collector's Edition) DVD - RopeofSilicon.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the "buddy film" with this box office smash set in the Old West.
His sidekick, Butch Cassidy (Newman), is always dreaming up new ways to get rich fast.
So Butch and Sundance pack their guns, don new duds, and, with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head down to Bolivia.
www.ropeofsilicon.com /dvd.php?id=2731   (298 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid | The A.V. Club
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid might not have invented the modern buddy comedy, but it may as well have.
Goldman has criticized his Oscar-winning screenplay for being overly clever, which is akin to job applicants who cite their biggest flaws as "I'm too hard-working" or "I'm too much of a perfectionist." But Goldman has a point.
Butch Cassidy's dialogue is so unrelentingly sarcastic and irreverent that the film sometimes feels like an especially sharp Mad Magazine parody of itself.
www.avclub.com /content/node/49493   (340 words)

  
 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is the likeably entertaining, charming and amusing comedy/drama of the friendship and camaraderie shared between the two handsome and humorous buddy leads - legendary, turn-of-the-century Western outlaws and their "Hole in the Wall" gang.
In the memorable opening, the screen is filled with an immense close-up of the face of sly, funny, witty, smart-ass, egotistical, and handsome Butch Cassidy [(Paul Newman) not identified as Butch until later in the film].
The two are the perfect pair: an independent, unconventional thinker, Butch has the brains and is a quick-witted visionary, disrespectful of both the law and the establishment.
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 Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Butch is leader of the Hole in the Wall gang, and they specialize in bank and train robberies, being careful never to kill anyone in the process.
Butch is the Big Thinker and Sundance is all action and gunslinging skill (the real Sundance was a cruel killer).
Their relationship of bickering and friendship is beautifully communicated by the leads, who had never met before shooting began on the movie.
www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1540   (715 words)

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