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Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
In George Roy Hill's comedy-western:
- the amusing banter throughout the film between
two western legendary, train-robbing anti-hero outlaws Butch (Paul
Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford)
- Butch's swift crotch kick at brutish Bowie-knife-wielding
gang member Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) (who had been distracted and
exclaimed: "Rules - in a knife fight? No rules!")
- the gang's many train and bank robberies together
including one with too much dynamite detonated: ("...Think you
used enough dynamite there, Butch?") and another with clever
ventriloquism to trick railroad employee Woodcock (George Furth)
into opening the train door
- the sexy and surprising scene of Sundance's visit
to schoolmarm Etta's (Katharine Ross) farmhouse bedroom when he ordered
her to unbutton her blouse and undress in front of him at gunpoint
- the lyrical musical interlude sequence of Butch riding
a bicycle with Etta to the tune of
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head"
- the long, relentless pursuit sequence by a mysterious
posse and Butch's repeated question: "Who are those guys?"
- when cornered on a dead-end cliff, Sundance's admission: "I
can't swim" (with Butch's guffawing retort: "Why, you crazy,
the fall'll probably kill ya") and their big jump off a steep
canyon ledge into a fast-moving river below while yelling a long
and drawn out: "AWWWWW S-----T"
- the final sequence in which the wounded and doomed
heroes joked and daydreamed: ("For a moment there, I thought
we were in trouble") and then were caught at the point of death
as Yanqui banditos in a freeze-framed shootout in Bolivia (turning
from color to sepia-toned)
Freeze-Framed Demise During Shootout
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Knife Fight with Harvey
"...Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" - Bicycle
Ride
Stranded on a Cliff
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