Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid remains one of the best crafted and most beloved of all the Westerns made. The primary differentiator between Butch Cassidy and The Sundance kid and the other hundreds of films littering the genre is its lighthearted tone. The movie is jovial without being silly; it retains the sense of adventure that characterizes the Western genre. George Roy Hill and William Goldman threw audiences …showed first 75 words of 749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 749 total…movie to pair up a couple of wisecracking best friends in an action/adventure setting, this film became the model of how well that approach could work when done right. It's easy to see a little of Butch and Sundance in nearly every action duo to reach the screens during the last 30 years. And that, more than anything, is a testimony to the lasting influence of one of the most atypical of all the Westerns