Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Opening with a silent "movie" of Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang, George Roy Hill [13]'s comically elegiac Western chronicles the mostly true tale of the outlaws' last months. Witty pals Butch (Paul Newman [14]) and Sundance (Robert Redford [15]) join the Gang in successfully robbing yet another train with their trademark non-lethal style. After the pair rests at the home of Sundance's schoolmarm girlfriend, Etta (Katharine Ross [16]), the Gang robs the same train, but this time, the railroad boss has hired the best trackers in the business to foil the crime. After being tailed over rocks and a river gorge by guys that they can barely identify save for a white hat, Butch and Sundance decide that maybe it's time to try their luck in Bolivia. Taking Etta with them, they live high on ill-gotten Bolivian gains, but Etta leaves after their white-hatted nemesis portentously arrives. Their luck running out, Butch and Sundance are soon holed up in a barn surrounded by scores of Bolivian soldiers who are waiting for the pair to make one last run for it.