Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film
directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based
loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert
LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner
Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the
run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair
and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in
search of a more successful criminal career.In 2003, the film was
selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library
of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically
significant." The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid as the 73rd-greatest American film on its "AFI's 100
Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list. Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th-greatest heroes on "AFI's 100
Years...100 Heroes & Villains". Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was
selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th-greatest Western of
all time in the AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008.In 1899 Wyoming, Butch
Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw
Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot
"Sundance Kid". The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall
(Wyoming) to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long
absences, have selected Harvey Logan as their new leader. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter