BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Friday May 16, 2003 6:30 pm (movie starts at 8:30 pm)

at Creek Park in downtown San Anselmo

A benefit for the Marin County Bicycle Coalition

1969 Fox 112m

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a fun movie that reinvented the Western for a new generation. It's pairing of Newman and Redford would create one of the most popular duos to ever hit the screen. The movie was directed by George Roy Hill, a veteran director of TV's "Golden Age", who would not only make this classic film, but many other great films like Slaughterhouse-five, Slap Shot and The Sting. The movie also stars Katharine Ross, who two years earlier was thrust into the spotlight for her role in The Graduate.

There are many elements that make this movie so popular with such a large audience. There's the pairing of the two handsome actors, the witty lines ("Think you used enough dynamite there Butch?", "Who are those guys?"), the wonderful Academy Award winning cinematography of Conrad Hill, and the romantic ledged of the famous outlaws.

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For more on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid visit these web sites.

Film Site

Butch and the Wild Bunch

Butch Cassidy, Dead or Alive

The Wild Bunch

1969

World Events

4/1	France withdraws from Nato
7/21	US Apollo 11 space craft lands on the Moon
8/15	Vast outdoor rock festival at Wookstock starts.
9/3	Death of Ho Chi Minh, president of North Vietnam
9/12	President Nixon orders resumed bombing of North Vietnam
11/14	Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas found American Zoetrope.

Academy Awards

Best Picture - MIDNIGHT COWBOY

Best Director - John Schlesinger/MIDNIGHT COWBOY

Best Actor - John Wayne/TRUE GRIT

Best Actress - Maggie Smith/THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE

Best Supporting Actor - Gig Young/THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

Best Supporting Actress - Goldie Hawn/CACTUS FLOWER