Great buddy casting. The screenplay and photography are a triumph.

Rating: 8/10 (20 April 2020)

The casting of Paul Newman and Robert Redford as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance respectively was a stroke of movie casting genius.
Newman and Redford are the Morecambe and Wise if the movies I've learned over the past few days after watching this and The Sting (1973) from the same director, George Roy Hill.
Add a Western story of a couple of outlaws, couple of train robbers cum bank robbers and some cinematography that harked back to older John Ford films and you have a great film.
Like The Sting you have a buddy picture better than most others. Some great comic lines. "What do you mean, you can't swim" as the outlaws face a sheer fall into rapids below whilst being pursued to an inevitable death unless they jump.
A great screenplay, photography, music by Burt Bacharach quite rightly were awarded with Oscars.
As for George Roy Hill his time would come four years later with The Sting.
He adds some sepia images to add some periodicity to proceedings.