Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Theatrical release poster by Tom Beauvais
Directed by	George Roy Hill
Written by	William Goldman
Produced by	John Foreman
Starring	Paul Newman Robert Redford Katharine Ross Strother Martin Jeff Corey Henry Jones
Cinematography	Conrad Hall
Edited by	John C. Howard Richard C. Meyer
Music by	Burt Bacharach
Production companies	Campanile Productions Newman-Foreman Company
Distributed by	20th Century-Fox
Release dates	September 23, 1969 (1969-09-23) (New Haven) September 24, 1969 (1969-09-24) (New York City) [1]
Running time	110 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6 million[3]
Box office	$102.3 million (North America)[4]

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia to escape the posse.

In 2003, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".^[5][6] The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 73rd-greatest American film on its "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list, and number 50 on the original list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th-greatest heroes on "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains". Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th-greatest Western of all time in the AFI's 10 Top 10 list in 2008.