Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
So this is a bit of an odd one, I think. The first half is a Western. A good Western, with humour. You can watch Paul Newman and Robert Redford do anything and it’s going to be entertaining and attractive. And the scenery is beautiful.
I don’t, however, think that the second half works even nearly as well.
Around halfway, the characters travel to Bolivia. (It was released in 1969, I’m not spoiling). This is shown via a montage, which is overlong and not especially interesting. Paul Newman looks oddly not-like-Paul-Newman in it.
Anyway, we get to Bolivia. There’s another montage. It’s just less interesting - watching two men trying to find their place in a worl moving too fast is fun to watch and compelling but underwritten - as it Goldman ran out of interest and sent in a “will this do?” script.
Good ending though.













