Like Bonnie and Clyde in 1967, glamorous outlaws Butch and Sundance were in tune with the late-'60s counterculture.

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2009)

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid does wonderful things with mood and atmosphere. It tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner The Sundance Kid (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.
The film is a humorous, cheerful, poetic and cinematic account of two semi-legendary outlaws, winningly acted and directed. Newman and Redford made a superb, handsome, dry-humoured double act, and every Hollywood studio wanted to reunite them after this outing. (It finally happened in 1973 in The Sting). One of the decade's great commercial successes, not least because of the song 'Raindrops Keeps Fallin' On My Head'. Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid has been part of the United States National Film Registry since 2003.