Stealing is Not for Me-Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid **1/2

Rating: 6/10 (2 December 2010)

The problem with this film is a very common problem in motion pictures. We become too involved and sympathetic to those who are doing wrong.
There is much comedy here but the fact remains that Butch and Sundance were robbers, and in the end, they wound up as many in that illegal profession do.
Yes, it is true that there are some very funny lines. We are amused by the dedicated worker robbed by the duo two times. Announcing a hold up in Spanish with directions must have brought the house down.
The audience must have also been enlightened by Paul Newman's acrobatic ability on the bicycle with and without Katharine Ross, who obviously took a much more mature role here after her 1967 smash "The Graduate." We really can't figure out Etta here. Did she really love both guys?
B.J. Peaker's Oscar winner-Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head is wonderfully staged, but where is the rain?