“Who are those guys?”
In 1969
The Wild Bunch (#9) wowed the critics and
True Grit (#38) won an Oscar for its star, but the unquestioned, runaway box office champion not only among Westerns but among all movies was
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. George Roy Hill’s megahit follows the title affable outlaws, Paul Newman and Robert Redford, as they rob banks and trains. That is until the railroad hires a super posse to pursue and kill them. Instead of leading to a showdown they decide to run away. Far away. To Bolivia. William Goldman’s Oscar winning script is still taught in screenwriting classes. The megawatt charm of the stars, the wit of the script, the Oscar winning cinematography by Connie Hall, and Oscar winning music by Burt Bacharach all added up to an irresistible bit of fun. The critics pretty well dumped on it during its initial release but in time most have come around to acknowledge the influential
Butch & Sundance as the classic it is. That obviously translated to MoFo votes, crossing the 600-point barrier, appearing on thirty-eight ballots with twenty top ten placements: four first place, three second, two third, a fourth, a fifth, three sixth, a seventh, four eighth, and a ninth.
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