In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and The Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels, so Butch comes up with the idea of escaping to Bolivia.
The dream-team pairing of Newman and Redford is one of many reasons why this revisionist western is such a treat.
It’s light-hearted and likeable, a cool, 1960s spin on a genre that at the time had become a little tired. William Goldman wrote the entertaining screenplay and won one of the film’s four Oscars.
The others were for Cinematography, Music and another for Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s evergreen song ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’.
Look out for a strand on Robert Redford in the 2026 Chichester International Film Festival.