On October 24, 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a team of bank robbers in the Old West, opens in theaters around the United States. The film was a commercial and critical success, receiving seven Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director) and winning in the categories of Best Screenplay (William Goldman), Best Song (Burt Bacharach’s “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head”), Best Score and Best Cinematography.
Prior to Butch Cassidy, Paul Newman, who was born on January 26, 1925, appeared in such films as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967), each of which earned him a Best Actor Academy Award nomination. He teamed up with Redford again in 1973’s The Sting, which collected seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The famously blue-eyed Newman went on to star in such movies as Absence of Malice (1981) and The Verdict (1982), both of which earned him Best Actor Oscar nominations, and The Color of Money (1986), for which he took home his first Best Actor Oscar. He received Oscar nominations again for his performances in Nobody’s Fool (1994) and Road to Perdition (2002). The screen legend died at the age of 83 on September 26, 2008, after battling cancer.
Redford, born on August 18, 1936, made his breakthrough performance on Broadway with Barefoot in the Park in 1963. Following the success of Butch Cassidy, he starred in such movies as The Candidate (1972), The Great Gatsby (1974), All the President’s Men (1976) and The Natural (1984). Redford made his directorial debut with 1980’s Ordinary People, which won four Oscars, including Best Director and Best Picture. Redford went on to helm The Milagro Beanfield War (1988), A River Runs Through It (1992) and Quiz Show (1994), which received four Oscar nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture. Later features included The Horse Whisperer (1998), in which he also starred; The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), Lions for Lambs (2007), Our Souls at Night (2017) and The Old Man & the Gun (2018).
Written in 2009
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Robert Redford also produced movies from books by Tony Hillerman, showing the amazing New Mexico. (I still prefer the books)
New Mexico is far and away one of the most beautiful and enigmatic of the lower 48. Pity its been overrun by whackadoodle leftards.
This movie is one of my all time favorites. The scene where they blow up the mail car, “Use enough dynamite there Butch?”. Classic line!!
Just Sayin’
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate. Some men you just can’t reach. So you get what we had here last week. Which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. And I don’t like it any more than you men.” Classic.
Martel,Cool Hand Luke was also a good film,cutting off meter heads was awesome!
G”n”R used that line in the beginning of their classic song”Civil War”
That twas a great flick!
I also enjoy Hillerman’s books,a great author.
Both actors are fabulous…as actors. But they sure as hell believe(d) some crazy ass shit.
Yea, Redford went full blown radical Hollywood Left and Newman (from what I could tell) evolved into a generous Liberal, but avoided the edgy public ideological issues.
I learned to dislike, then hate, then despise Hollywood, and all of the Luciferins who run it. I prefer that label at the top of the One Eye Pyramid that controls almost everything rather than Jewish…but they can be both…and they can be separate…I have no idea of the percent’s…but Hollywood is in both camps.
I liked Newman in spite of his liberaleese crap, good salad dressing though…learned to sneer at Redford and his thin veneer trendy Lefty ideologue-ish bullshit.
My favorite Newman role was Hombre…big fan of Elmore Leonard’s writing and pure razor edged dialog, plus the lean and mean fearless integrity of the Hombre character played by Newman…using as few words as possible.
Richard Boone (I loved Paladin – my boyhood hero) played one badass bad guy.
The pretty, jaded woman, with the good heart was to me super attractive, both physically and character wise. You knew she would be fun to be around…if you treated her well.
Elmore Leonard’s writing is and always has been the pure essence of human verbal electricity.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061770/characters/nm0000056
Pretty sure misters Cassidy and Kid were 2 of the very first covid deaths.