As they said at the beginning, this story is mostly true. There is no definitive answer as to how or where Butch and Sundance died. There are other stories, but this is a good one. But now you have to watch The Sting. Same two stars, same director and a GREAT movie. In fact it won the Best Picture Oscar.
Hey, Jen-- that's another good movie to add to your list. Michael Caine & Robert DuValle, Second Hand Lions. . If we keep up with the suggestions, you'll be doing reaction videos for life.😉 @@tremorsfan that's an interesting notion. Michael Caine & Robert DuValle make that a good movie. Paul would have been better, maybe... It's a shame he wouldn't "play" old. Wouldn't have been much acting, by then he WAS... and of course, "I hold him in the highest respect..."
GREAT MOVIE, SAW IT WHERE I LIVE JUST OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY BACK AROUND 73-74. ON A NEW TYPE OF MEDIUM, AT LEAST TO THIS AREA ANYWAY. IT WAS CALLED CABLEVISION Of LONG ISLAND. AND IT WAS WITH FIRST RUN MOVIES AFTER THEIR THEATRICAL RELEASES. WOUND UP FOR VIEWING MAYBE 6 MONTHS LATER. THERE WAS MAYBE ONE TO THREE MOVIES A MONTH AT THAT TIME. AND YOU TALK ABOUT HEAVY ROTATION. EACH FILM SEEMS TO BE ON ABOUT FIVE TIMES A DAY. OH AND IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. I THOUGHT ROBERT SHAW STOLE THE MOVIE ! TAKE CARE STAY SAFE AND BE WELL.
This movie, as well as Jeremiah Johnson and The Sting, are integral parts of my childhood. Jeremiah Johnson stars Robert Redford as a fur trapper, much in the same style as this, and is definitely worth a watch.
One thing, the ending was left like that as Newman and Redford were such lovable characters and stars the filmmakers didn't really want to show you them dying horribly or it would have changed the movie considerably. Hence, the ending of them running into a blaze and freezing became one of most iconic endings ever filmed that's been copied ever since.
And it was done with a difficult and complex optical effect by L.B. Abbott. He actually snapping a full length picture of the guys alongside the movie camera and pasting and retouching that photo into an enlarged photo of the fort. When the matching film frame to the photo was found, that is where they froze and dissolved to the sepia-tone photo of them at the fort. And they pulled back of that still photo. The difficulty was making sure the dissolve was aligned and matched so that it looked entirely like the same picture.
now compare it with The Wild Bunch from the same year... both movies share similar themes but the treatment and tone are quite different, and they have similar endings but resolved in opposite ways
Always found it interesting that the wanted poster for real Bitch Cassidy described him as "friendly and affable." It was like they were saying "He's a wanted criminal, but you'll like him."
Great reaction Jen. Both legendary actors have a lengthy filmography. For Paul Newman, I would recommend Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Absence of Malice (1981 w/Sally Field). Robert Redford movies to do are Three Days of the Condor (1975), All the Presidents Men (1976 w/Dustin Hoffman) and The Natural (1986). All great movies that nobody has reacted to on RU-vid yet. Thanks for all the hard work you do.
For Redford recommendations, I would add: Jeremiah Johnson Brubaker The Electric Horseman Your 3 plus my 3 are my personal favorite 6 Redford movies. For reactions, I would probably suggest starting with The Natural.
Excellent suggestions! I'd add "Torn Curtain" (1966) - can you imagine Paul Newman co-starring with Julie Andrews (of all people) in a Cold War thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock? For Robert Redford, two more: "Spy Game" (2001), in which he stars with Brad Pitt - someone had the brilliant idea of co-starring the two "ultra-hunk" actors of their generations, and it worked beautifully. The other is "An Unfinished Life" (2005), starring Redford, Morgan Freeman, and Jennifer Lopez. Pairing Morgan Freeman with ANYBODY works well, and he and Redford are no exception. (Of the films I've mentioned, "An Unfinished Life" is the most "human interest"-y, with strong characters, and it's an overlooked gem.) I'm sure Jen would love these, even if she didn't do reactions.
They don't argue with Etta because of the reason she's leaving: remember she said she wouldn't watch them die. They all three know that time is coming and she is leaving, as stated in the terms she laid down.
Thanks for selecting this film (you polled it, I believe). THIS film is the standard bearer in buddy movies; Paul Newman & Robert Redford are unmatched against all others. Handsome, witty (great writing), charming with comedic timing, and charisma to spare. Katherine Ross was excellent as the SMART and BEAUTIFUL co-conspirator in this film, too. Great movie; it turned the western genre on its head when it came out.
Hi Jen.,once again great choice! These two actors were a dynamic pairing in their day. Try the film The Sting. Separate films (Newman),Cool Hand Luke. For (Redford) The Natural. Both great films IMO.
Two other films that Redford directed, but was not in-- The Milagro Beanfield War, and, The Legend of Bagger Vance... Bagger Vance has Wil Smith and Matt Damon, with Charlize Theron. It's a '30's golf movie and romance. Sounds dumb, right? A movie about GOLF? It's not, it's better than that. And Milagro Beanfield War is about a land/ water rights war in New Mexico. Half of the cast is the best Spanish speaking actors from the USA and Latin America, a bi-racial film. Lotta good folks in the supporting cast, and the story has folk tale elements about it...
Legendary actors, playing legendary figures. Many claim that Butch didn't die in S. America, but came back to Utah/Wyoming area several times, including Butch's sister and other family members.
"WE need a miracle here." Not "they," not "you," but "WE." I love how Jen is almost like a participant in the movies she reacts to rather than just a spectator.
This movie is about changes in society. Butch and Sundance were the old way (wild), the trackers are the new relentless corporate power (structured and orderly). The bicycle represents mechanization. In the end the new way beats the old way just like Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox were defeated.
Butch Cassidy and Harry Longbaugh (Sundance) were real. All of these types of films have to play with fact in order to be entertaining. But this one is less outrageous than a lot of them. There's a theory that Butch actually survived and returned to the U.S. under an alias. Of course, there's rumors like that for almost every famous or infamous person. But that one has more cred than most. Probably not true, but possible. You can see Newman and Redford paired up again, and with the same director, in "The Sting." And their antagonist is Robert Shaw (Quint from Jaws).
@@larryyeadeke2953 There isn't a one hundred percent documented knowledge of how or even where they died. The filmed version is just that, one version of several that have been described but there really isn't enough historical knowledge of their deaths to be certain as to what ever happened to them.
@@88wildcat What I'm saying is if they came out of the building like they did in the movie, they died. No way all those military guys missed. Hell's bells, they were just waiting for them to come out.
Interesting that the first scene written for this movie by William Goldwin was the jump scene in the middle. He then had to figure out to get them from the beginning of the movie to the top of the hill and then how to get them from the river to Bolivia.
Hey, Jen!!! 'Butch & Sundance' is one of the best. George Roy Hill did so many great movies, and this is one of the best. It won Best Screenplay, Best Score, Best Song, and Best Cinematography. It was also the first teaming of Redford and Newman, who would team up for 'The Sting' a few years later. Katherine Ross (Etta) has basically retired from acting, but she is alive and well and married to Sam Elliott (the Cowboy in 'The Big Lebowski'). Robert Redford (Sundance) was one of the biggest stars of the late 1960s through the 1980s and became a voice for independent film in the 1990s through his Sundance Institute and The Sundance Film Festival which are in Provo, Utah. He originally named his ranch Sundance as well. He won two Oscars...one for Best Director for 'Ordinary People', his directorial debut, and for Lifetime Acheivement. He also played Secretary Alexander Pierce in the MCU (Captain America: The Winter Soldier & Avengers: Endgame) Must watches: - 'The Way We Were' with Barbra Streisand - 'The Sting' with Newman and Robert Shaw, also directed by George Roy Hill - 'All The President's Men' with Dustin Hoffman. Redford as reporter Bob Woodward and Hoffman as reporter Carl Bernstein covering the Watergate break-in for The Washington Post. Also written by William Goldman. - 'Up Close & Personal' with Michelle Pfeiffer. Paul Newman (Butch)...one of Hollywood's greatest stars and greatest humanitarians. He married the beautiful Joanne Woodward, a big star in her own right. He won the Oscar for Best Actor as "Fast" Eddie Felson in 'The Color of Money' directed by Martin Scorsese, a role he played years earlier in a film called 'The Hustler'. He starred opposite Tom Cruise in the film. If you have ever bought any of the 'Newman's Own' brand of foods, you have given money to a company founded by Newman and Woodward that donates 100% of its profits to charities, including Newman's own 'Hole In The Wall Camps' for children who are seriously ill. Since 1982, it is estimated that Newman's Own products have raised anywhere from $500 million to $1 billion for charity. Must watches: - 'Slap Shot', one of the funniest and most biting political movies ever...about a low-end ice hockey team. - 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' with Elizabeth Taylor, from the Tennessee Willims play. - 'Hud' - 'Cool Hand Luke' - 'The Sting' (yeah...again!!!) - 'The Last Movie Stars', a new 2022 documentary for HBOMax directed by Ethan Hawke about Paul and Joanne. It is fascinating and doesn't shy away from the warts of their relationship or who they were. Taken from transcripts of an unfinished memoir Newman was planning and abandoned...Newman is voiced by George Clooney and Woodward by Laura Linney. Of course, the screenplay by William Goldman is one of those perfect scripts, it was just a few years after this he would write the novel, 'The Princess Bride'...and you know that one! This won him his first Oscar for Best Screenplay, and he would win again in a few years for 'All The President's Men'.
Well done. That was a lot of reading, but it was worth it. I would also add, The Great Waldo Pepper with Robert Redford. I heard that it was originally supposed to be another Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie, but it didn't work out. Why, I'm not sure.
You said you thought Sundance would be the younger guy, and he was (in this movie): Redford was 11 years younger than Newman. The mustache must have fooled ya
My freshman acting teacher introduced us to this movie, lovingly labeling it "the western for people who don't like westerns." And I've loved it ever since. I never thought about the fact she said, "I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene, thank you." And we never see them die, either. Fantastic direction.
Great movie for all the reasons including legendary chemistry between Redford and Newman. Screenwriter William Goldman had a fantastic ear for dialogue, and he has a ton of credits to prove it, including one of the most quoted films of all time, The Princess Bride (1987). From this movie, I find myself saying "Guns or knives?!" whenever an argument arises.
Yup. Absolutely do The Sting. I see a lot of movie suggestions for both Paul Newman and also for Redford. All good choices. Paul Newman started the Hole in the Wall Gang Camps for seriously ill children. His vision was to give these kids a chance to have some fun and "raise a Little Hell". He also started a line of food items called Newman's Own. Popcorn, salsa, salad dressings, pasta sauces and more. The bulk of his profits go to support the camp still. I believe he had that in his will. He and his wife (actress JoAnne Woodward) raised and donated a lot of money for various charities. Both outstanding (award winning) actors as well. The Sting is such a good movie!!!
William Goldman, who wrote the screenplay, also wrote _The Princess Bride._ Katherine Ross had a great success two years previously in _The Graduate._ If you've never seen it, you should. It is one of the signal films of the 60s and the one that made Dustin Hoffman a star.
Back then they did not ask to many questions when someone would join the army, so it was a great place for robbers and thieves to hide out, cooks would commit a robbery and then lay low in the army for the winter and when spring hit go find their hidden lute. They were called Winter Soldiers.
Hi, Jen. You & Tara need to react together more. Fun fact: Robert Redford created the Sundance Film Festival held in Utah every year and named it for his character in this film. He just turned 86 years young on 8/18. Director George Roy Hill and Paul Newman are no longer with us but, allow me to remind you to react to THE STING (1973) now that you've seen this film. These actors and that director will be teamed up again and you'll love the musical adaptations by Marvin Hamlish of Scott Joplin's piano rags. That's a style called Ragtime from the late 19th & early 20th centuries. It works good by a band or an orchestra too. You stay classy, Jen.
@@larrystuder8543 Paul Newman's summer camp sounds familiar. I don't know when he started it. His charity food brand (Newman's Own) was started in the early 80s and lives on to this day. They're all probably inspired by his son (Scott, I think) who was in his 20s when Paul lost him tp drug abuse.
Newman and Redford became best buds. The played tricks on each other. Also, they did s routine at s theater in Connecticut, where they are old and cannot remember each other. Very funny.
Paul Newman and Robert Redfod did the Sting 1973. It also features James Earl Jones' father aswell. Amazing Caper film. I do love Robert Redford in Three Days of Condor and the Sneakers. Paul Newman was just amazingly talented only matched by his looks. Too many films to list worth watching.
Great reaction again Jen. I'm not sure if anyone mentioned yet, but the Sundance Film Festival was created by Robert Redford, and he named the film festival after the Sundance character in this movie. On another not - I did not know your sister did reactions too. I have seen her on here with you, but never made the connection that a few reactions i did on her channel was her! I finally figured it out after watching her Field of Dreams reaction.
The ending is exactly what Etta said: "...and I'll do anything you ask of me except one thing. I won't watch you die. I'll miss that scene if you don't mind." Having the soldier's final intense volleys of fire done off-screen just makes it all the more tragic. One of the saddest endings to one of the best movies.
Great stuff. I'm almost certain this means we'll be getting The Sting (brilliant conman/heist caper with the handsome boys reunited!) sometime soon then. I get the impression that when this first came out no one had seen a western like this before - the playful tone, the 60s music, the "modern" dialogue, definitely that late 60s onwards era when filmmakers decided they could shake things up.
Jen, you definitely should try some Spaghetti-Westerns. This later american westerns were back influenced by Spaghetti-Westerns, as was Quentin Tarantino. Original Django (1966) is a legend, as is the Dollar Trilogy and the early Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies.
Paul Newman is my favorite actor of all time..Almost everything he is in is either great, or very good, but always very watchable..He commands the screen..I'll give you just a handful...."Hud"..."Cool Hand Luke" (my personal favorite).."Hudsucker Proxy"..."Road to Perdition"..."Absence of Malice"..."The Verdict"..The Sting"..The Hustler"..."The Cold of Money".."Cat On A Hot Tin Roof" ..and so many more.
Another great reaction to a great classic movie! I believe I heard you say this is your first Redford/Newman movie experience? We'll you are in for a treat if you watch any of their other films. And I usually don't recommend movies, but Paul Newman in "Cool Hand Luke", is an awesome movie that you would enjoy. The classic phrase from CHL is "What we got here is, failure to communicate..." Keep up the great reactions, Jen! 👍🎥🍿
I saw a video here headlined as "Sam Elliot talks about Acting, Butch Casdidy, The Big Lebowski, " etc. I wondered which role he had in this-- even re-watching, with all those hints, I didn't catch that that was him. Thanx for the hint.
Amazing masterpiece I love this film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid directed by George Roy Hill starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross and music score by Burt Bacharach. The song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" single by B.J. Thomas won an Oscar for best original song. Thank you Jen great reaction excellent😊😊👍👍
Another great reaction to a great movie. You can never go wrong watching a movie with Redford or Newman in it let alone both in the same movie. Katharine Ross was an excellent choice for playing Etta Place who was actually the outlaws companion. She was about 21, 22 when she first met Sundance in 1899
Thanks for choosing this, Jen. One of my favorite movies with Robert Redford is the more recent "An Unfinished Life," which also stars Jennifer Lopez and Morgan Freeman. I second the recommendation of Cool Hand Luke as a Paul Newman movie. I also like the later "Nobody's Fool," with Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith.
Both were killed in a shootout in Bolivia in 1908. Etta Place's fate is unknown. She is believed to have left her lover shortly before the end and returned to the states. Last known sighting 1909 in San Fransisco. The bodies of two Americans killed in a gunfight with police were identified as being the outlaws by someone from a bank they robbed. Their bodies have never been positively found and identified and there is an unsubstantiated rumour that they both survived and returned to the states although this is considered highly unlikely. The Hole-in-the-Wall site is in Wyoming.
The movie that they watched in New York was "The Great Train Robbery. It was about them and it pissed them off . The movie showed several shootings and they never shot anyone.
I imagine *_The Sting_* is being recommended (another _Redford_ & _Newman_ team up). I would also recommend *_Sneakers_* (1992) for a great _Redford_ film. As for westerns, I'd highly recommend *_Silverado_* (1985). It's a lot of fun, with a *great* cast. 🤠
I still remember the first time I watched this film. I was nine years old when it was released. The scene with Sundance returning to his lover, Katherine Ross, glued me to the idea that ladies were tantalizing valuables though I no longer believe that to be true! But the characters were memorable, and the music went on to become major hits! It was an interesting time to be alive!
Robert Redford, The Sundance Kid, became the founder of the SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL; an easy way to remember who's who. The Hole in the Wall was in Wyoming, closer to the port of San Francisco; why did the trio go all the way to New York City to catch a ship to Bolivia, which is toward the western coast of South America? Lots of wasted money and mileage.
Fun Fact - Harvey, the guy that challenge Butch in the knife fight, Ted Cassidy, played Lurch in The Addams Family that launched his career in many unique roles and characters.
William Goldman wrote both this screenplay and that of "The Princess Bride". In the novel The Princess Bride, he claims that the cliff jump scene in Butch Cassidy was inspired by the Cliffs of Insanity in the (fictional) Morganstern book The Princess Bride: in reality, Goldman made up all three of them (both screenplays, and Morganstern himself).
Another piece of trivia: the Sundance film festival (probably the best known film festival in the U.S.) was started by Robert Redford and is named after his most iconic character.
The sixties were an era where filmmakers were gradually breaking the mold on westerns. Traditionally, westerns were good guy vs. bad guy, white hats vs. black hats. This film turned the genre on its head making the bad guys into the charming heroes. It also revealed the incredible screen charisma between Paul Newman and Robert Redford. FYI the prevailing historical opinion is that they ended their days ranching in Argentina.
Another great reaction! Everyone had excellent recommendations here. In particular, I have to echo everyone recommending "The Sting". It is an excellent movie. As for later in their careers, Paul Newman, aside from doing more movies, he also raced cars and you might have seen his face looking back at you from bottles in the grocery store on various jars of pasta sauce and salad dressings. As for Robert Redford, one of his most recent roles was in "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (but you really should watch all of the other MCU movies released before that one - it's the 9th of the MCU movies).
The trackers, just like their unseen employer Mr. E.H. Harriman of the Union Pacific, were all faceless menaces. Cold, impersonal, almost inhuman forces. The opposite of the very human Butch and Sundance.
I don't know if I'm the first to mention it, because I can't see all of the comments but the same director, George Roy Hill also teamed up with Redford and Newman in The Sting. But my favorite of Hill's, is when he directed Robin Williams in The World According to Garp.
From the success of the film a TV series was later made called Alias Smith and Jones. It was with two different actors but they tried to keep the same brotherly friendship and humour which was shown in the film. I hope you can check out the TV series sometime, it was a classic western series.
There's a lot of mystery surrounding how they died in Bolivia. Etta went with them but no one is sure where or when she actually died in real life or even who she really was after she returned to the States.
Etta actually did leave. What became of her (or where she came from to begin with) is one of history's mysteries. There are 2 photos of her. One with Sundance all dressed up, and another of her with Butch and Sundance and a dog out in front of a small house.
Legend has it that Butch Cassidy and Sundance escaped from Bolivia and returned to the United States. In the 1930s someone claimed to be Butch Cassidy.
Harry Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid, and Etta Place, photographed in New York City (February 1901) just before they sailed for South America: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etta_Place#/media/File:Sundance_Kid_and_wife-clean.jpg
writer of Butch Cassidy William Goldman and Princess Bride, took his mother to the premiere. After the film, William asked his elderly mother " So Mom, What did you think ?? " " Weren't the horses beautiful " was her response
If you want a movie that is a feast for the eyes. Once Upon A Time in the West. It's a bit slow. But it's the perfect western. Sergio Leone was the director who did the Clint Eastwood Man with No Name and makes an amazing movie.
The Rocky Mountains used to be honeycombed with hidden trails and hidey-holes from New Mexico to Alberta, known and used by many outlaws in the wild west. For this reason, it was nicknamed 'The Outlaw Trail,' and had entry and exit points near every settlement along its length, some more-or-less sympathetic to the free-spending ways of successful criminals.
Nice reaction. Another good western by Paul Newman that isn’t often mentioned, is titled “Hombre” (1967). Newman is much more stoic in that film as a white man raised by native Americans.
A little trivia...You just reacted to "The Big Lebowski"..Sam Elliott was the Cowboy in that...Katherine Ross (Etta) has been married to Elliott since 1984...a bit of a coinky-dink.
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid were absolutely real historical figures (as was Etta Place) and probably the last of the famous wild west outlaws. One thing that's different from the film is that when they fled to South America in 1901 they originally went to Argentina where it seems they made a genuine attempt to go straight by purchasing a ranch. However two English-speaking bandits held up the Banco de Tarapacá y Argentino in Río Gallegos on February 14 1905. Although this was never confirmed to be Butch and Sundance they were widely suspected. Also the Pinkerton Detective Agency who had tracked them in America had been aware of their location for some time. In May 1905 they sold their ranch and fled to Chile. It was whilst they were in Chile that Etta decided to leave as she'd become tired of life on the run. The two obtaining work as payroll guards also happen during their time in Chile. It was in late 1907 that they eventually travelled to Bolivia and it seems they still intended to settle down as legitimate ranchers. On November 3rd 1908 a payroll was robbed by two masked American bandits in San Vincente, Bolivia. This was believed to be Butch and Sundance. It was just 3 days later in San Vincente where Butch and Sundance were surrounded by the authorities. It's believed that Sundance was wounded in the exchange of gunfire and that eventually with no way out and Sundance in great pain that Cassidy shot Sundance to put him out of his pain before Cassidy took his own life. Of course there's been speculation that Butch and Sundance actually faked their deaths and returned quietly to America under new aliases but this is highly unlikely to be true. But on the whole this is a great film and really broke a lot of the traditional formula of the Western genre.
Paul Newman also marketed some fine sauces, under the "Newman's Own" label, with a drawing of his face on the label. Pretty good spaghetti sauce & salad dressings.
The Image of Butch and Sundance, just before they are killed, became one of the Most Popular Posters of all time. A very large percentage of Women of All Ages had that Poster hanging in there Bedrooms! Robert Redford and Paul Newman were 2 of the biggest Male Film Stars of the era. Redford bought a huge piece of land in Utah, where this movie was made calling his Ranch Sundance. He also founded the "Sundance Film Festival"
🎵 Among many other things, this film is noteworthy for being the first A-list film that Burt Bacharach finally got a chance to score. Prior to this, he had done the score for about a dozen lower tier films like "Love In A Goldfish Bowl," "Wives & Lovers," "What's New Pussycat," "Promise Her Anything," "After The Fox" and "Casino Royale." The fact that none of the music has anything remotely resembling a western feel to it was deliberate. The incongruity of them being chased around the old west while a modern chorus is scat-singing some jazzy stuff in the background was a first (and as far as I know, a last) attempt at artsy-fartsiness that film critics found rather amusing at the time. Be sure to check out "The Sting" (1973). In that film, Robert Redford is the clean shaven one and Paul Newman is the one with a mustache. 🤠
