“Note-perfect performances, a screenplay steeped in both nostalgia and a timely sense of insight, and anti-heroes you can’t help but love: it’s no surprise that the always re-watchable Butch And Sundance was once labelled the most likeable film ever made...”
Screened in tribute to Burt Bacharach (1931 - 2018)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid: leaders of the infamous Hole-In-The-Wall-Gang, who are forced to go on the run after a train robbery goes wrong. But the Wild West is becoming civilized, and evading their pursuers proves more tricky than usual... George Roy Hill's comically elegiac Western-cum-buddy pic chronicles the (mostly) true tale of the charismatic outlaws' last months - with great support from Katherine Ross as their long-suffering girlfriend (yes, their: it’s complicated.) Bacharach and David's 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' won the Academy Award for best song, and the late great William Goldman won Best Original Screenplay.
