3 great westerns in 1969

Rating: 10/10 (13 May 2006)

The year 1969 may have been the greatest one for westerns ever. We had "Once Upon a Time in the West", "The Wild Bunch" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". The last one has Paul Newman in one of his coolest roles ever, with Robert Redford showing the flair for acting that he would soon bring to many other flicks. That scene on the cliff is really something else, as is the movie's final scene.
There are some scenes in the movie that look sort of like they were thrown in for comic relief. There's the bicycle scene and the first time that they try to rob a bank in Bolivia. But overall, this is truly a great movie.
It's weird to think that I only saw this movie a few weeks after I first learned of Paul Newman's existence (from the movie "I Wanna Hold Your Hand"). My mom said that when she saw it when it first came out, she thought for about a minute that a certain scene involved a rape. But anyway, it's a movie that you gotta see. Also starring Katharine Ross and Strother Martin.