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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID
January 6, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

 

Made in 1969, this movie, like The Sting four years later, was directed by George Roy Hill and starred Paul Newman and Robert Redford. The difference, this time out, was the screenwriter, William Goldman, whose perfect script managed to be both retro and modern at the same time, and introduce almost as many bits of dialogue and business into the national consciousness as his later The Princess Bride. “You just keep thinkin’, Butch – that’s what you’re good at.” This movie delights me so much every time I watch it, I fall in love with the cinema all over again. And with Katharine Ross – but I digress…

 
 
 
 
 
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