George Roy Hill Directs A Winner

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2008)

George Roy Hill is a director who directed around 20 films, a majority of them involving either Paul Newman or Robert Redford. When he got a great script to work with like this one, and The Sting, he directed great films. When the script was not quite as good, he didn't do as well to raise the effort as with Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper.
This film based upon the real Hole in The Wall gang story is lavishly treated here and the story is a winner. The triangle of Redford-Newman & Katherine Ross is exploited magnificently & this film is one of the better of the westerns of the late 1960's though there are a lot of great westerns that seemed to come out in the 1960's.
If your a fan of westerns, this one holds up next to classics like The Wild Bunch and some others. This film has more fluff than the former, but it still is a classic in many ways on it's own.