Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a famous western movie. The film is based on the life of infamous bank robber Butch Cassidy and his companion the Sundance Kid. The film is loosely based on the history but the film popularized the robber duo. In this film famous actor Paul Newman played the role of Butch Cassidy and the role of Sundance Kid was played by Robert Redford. Famous American film director George Roy Hill directed the movie and the screenplay of the film was written by William Goldman.

Actors like Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey and Ted Cassidy were among the other cast members of the film. After a few days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were the leaders of the notorious Gang Hole in The Wall. When after planning another bank robbery the duo returns to their hide out they saw that the gang has chosen another leader. After defeating the new challenger in a knife fight butch takes up the opponents idea to rob the Passenger train of Union Pacific railroad twice. The first robbery was well executed but the second went wrong. During the second robbery a posse was set on the trail to kill them they kept on hiding for two days and at last they jumped from the edge of a canyon. After surviving from the jump they decided to leave the country for Bolivia. There also they tried their hands on a few robberies and tops hit list of the police in the whole Bolivia. Afterwards they tried to return to the honest jobs like being the guard of the mine. But on the same day the mine was attacked Bolivian robbers and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid has to kill them.
Seeing that they cannot stay out of blood shading and violence they decided to go back to their profession. Seeing that their days are numbered Etta, Sundance’s ladylove leaves them on that very evening. After a few days Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robed a mule train in the jungle and took the money and the mule with them. The mule was soon recognized and they were chased by the police. On being chased they took shelter in the house and were attacked by the police there. In this close encounter with police both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were wounded and as they rush out of the hide out the film freezes the image and all that was heard was a firing order followed by three round of firing from the rifles. The film got seven academy ward nominations and won four of them. The film is named among the 100 greatest movies of all time. Wikipedia

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