That forces them, along with Sundance’s girlfriend Etta Place (Katharine Ross) to flee to Bolivia where they try to go straight but end up on the wrong side of the law again, basically because being criminals is the only thing they’re good at. There was an appetite for adult male friendships in movies in the late-sixties.īutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is the reasonably-true-for-Hollywood story of two outlaws from “The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang” who rob banks and trains until the head of the Union Pacific Railroad gets sick of his trains being held up and hires a posse to hunt them down until they’re captured or dead. Honestly, there’s a bit of Felix and Oscar from The Odd Couple going on between Butch and Sundance. Butch and Sundance are heroes because they are outlaws and not in spite of it. There were Westerns made under the studio system with sympathetic outlaws, but only if they became heroes and renounce their old criminal ways. He admits halfway through the film that he’s never shot a man. Redford’s Sundance is more the strong silent type, but he does serve a role in that he rolls his eyes at some some of Butch’s more outlandish ideas.īutch tries to make friends with the people he robs. But they are charming bank and train robbers-especially Paul Newman’s Butch, who is the talkative and gregarious one of the two. The big difference in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with the lighter oaters of yesteryear was that the heroes of this film are the outlaws. But it also has a much lighter tone than the other “New Hollywood” films of the late-1960s and that owes something to traditional studio Westerns like Rio Bravo. The “New Hollywood” that emerged out of the wreckage of the old studio system was well underway by 1969, and Butch Cassidy certainly owed a lot ot Bonnie and Clyde. You could consider Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to be the last great old Hollywood Western, or you could consider it to be the first great buddy action-comedy. “Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head/But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turning red” I’m not predicting an upset tonight, but you never know.īutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (#6 seed) It takes on 1957’s Forty Guns, the #27 seed, directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan. First up is our #6 seed, 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Katharine Ross. So tonight we move on to our second contest. After all, learning about new films you haven’t seen is one of the purposes of this little game. But Shane is considered an all-time classic for a reason and Vera Cruz is one of those films that film aficionados talk about how it’s criminally overlooked.īut the good news here is that Shane moves on and now many of you have learned a little about Vera Cruz. I also thought that many of you would be so annoyed by the kid in Shane that you’d vote against it out of spite. I thought that Vera Cruz, which was directed by Robert Aldrich, could replicate the upsets that Kiss Me Deadly, also directed by Aldrich, had in the Noir Classic last winter. I thought we might have a potential upset brewing in our first contest of the BCB Winter Western Classic, but in the end, the favorite Shane cruised to an easy 82 to 18 percent victory over Vera Cruz. It’s Bill Henderson and the Oscar Peterson Trio playing “Gravy Waltz.” Henderson is on vocals, Peterson on piano, Ray Brown on double bass and Ed Thigpen on drums. Here’s our jazz treat to play with your Thanksgiving dinner. Those of you who skip that can do so now. So here’s the part where I put the music and the movies. It’s also considered by many to be baseball’s first “playoff game” separate from the World Series. He threw 8.1 innings of relief, allowing just one run, in the historic re-play of the “Merkle’s Boner” game in 1908 that clinched the pennant for the Cubs. Both are Hall of Famers, but only Sutter won the Cy Young Award.Īlso, I’m just happy no one tried to get smart and say “Mordecai Brown,” who would pitch in relief on the days he didn’t start. By a margin of 55 percent to 40 percent, you picked Bruce Sutter over Lee Smith. Last night, I asked you who you thought was the greatest Cubs reliever of all-time. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon. Bring your own beverage.īCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. Are you hiding from the relatives? Come on in. We’re so glad to see you stop by this evening. It’s another Wednesday evening here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad.
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