Country: USA
Year: 1969
Duration: 110'
Wyoming, the early 1900s. The famous bank robber Butch Cassidy and his partner in crime Sundance Kid decide to rob a train after the other members of their gang rebel. But the heist fails and the two find themselves on the run, helped only by Sundance’s fiancée, Etta. The three decide to go to Bolivia in hopes of finding better opportunities and they organize one last, desperate raid there. The first film starring the duo Newman-Redford, directed by Hill, as they would be in his next movie The Sting, this is one of the iconic movies of its era: made in the late 1960s, it turned two outlaws into an expression of the anarchic spirit that was popular among young people in those years, free-spirited and yet also tragic. Four Oscars: Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score and Best Original Song (Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head), both by Burt Bacharach.
Biography
film director
George Roy Hill
(Minneapolis, USA, 1921 – New York, USA, 2002) studied music at Yale University and debuted in television during the mid-1950s and in film in the early ‘60s, specializing in TV adaptations of Broadway shows. After the success of the comedy Thoroughly Modern Millie, he became one of Hollywood’s most important directors thanks to the success of two films starring the duo Paul Newman-Robert Redford: the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which won four Oscars, and, above all, the comedy The Sting, which won a total of seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. He worked again with Redford in The Great Waldo Pepper, after which, over the course of the ‘80s, he slowly left the ranks of Hollywood’s major directors.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kraft Television Theatre (tv, 1954-1956), Lux Video Theatre (tv, 1955), The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (tv, 1956-1957), Playhouse 90 (tv, 1957-1959), Period of Adjustment (Rodaggio matrimoniale, 1962), Toys in the Attic (La porta dei sogni, 1963), The World of Henry Orient (La vita privata di Henry Orient, 1964), Hawaii (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Millie, 1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Butch Cassidy, 1969), Slaughterhouse-Five (Mattatoio 5, 1972), The Sting (La stangata, 1973), The Great Waldo Pepper (Il temerario, 1975), Slap Shot (Colpo secco, 1977), A Little Romance (Una piccola storia d’amore, 1979), The World According to Garp (Il mondo secondo Garp, 1982), The Little Drummer Girl (La tamburina, 1984), Funny Farm (L’allegra fattoria, 1988).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: George Roy Hill. SCREENPLAY: William Goldman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Conrad Hall. EDITING: John C. Howard, Richard C. Meyer. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Philip M. Jefferies, Jack Martin Smith. COSTUME DESIGN: Edith Head. MUSIC: Burt Bacharach. CAST: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Kenneth Mars, Donnelly Rhodes. PRODUCTION: John Foreman for Campanile Productions Inc.
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