New version about the known bandits concerning their early days and first robberies , it boasts a youthful casting : Tom Berenger and William Katt giving sympathetic acting as the two legendary outlaws on the lam . Traces the origins of the famous outlaw duo
Sundance Kid : William Katt , Butch Cassidy : Tom Berenger who carry out banks robbering , escape , and along the way they're continuously pursued by O. C. Hanks : Brian Dennehy and Joe Le Fors : Peter Weller . It deftly blends noisy action , shoot-outs , spoof Western with delightful performances . This movie is based on real events about But Cassidy and Sundance Kid and previously adapted to cinema by George Roy Hill with Robert Redford and Paul Newman , destinated to become a classic that renewed the buddy film industry . The picture is an enjoyable Western-comedy with interesting characterizing about the celebrated leaders of the ¨Wild Bunch gang¨ of train robbers , they were one of the last old-style bandits of the West . With a clever storyline by Allan Burns based on the characters created by writer William Goldman, including humanly fallible roles and warm, witty dialogue . Besides , appearing veterans actors as Jeff Corey , John Schuck, Peter Weller, Brian Dennehy , Christopher Lloyd, Jill Eikenberry , Vincent Schiavelli , Arthur Hill, Noble Willingham, and Michael C. Gwynne as Mike Cassidy, the Butch's mentor. The film displays a stunning score by Patrick Williams as well as colorful cinematography by László Kovács. The motion picture was competent and professionally directed by Richard Lester though failed at boxoffice.
Other versions about these two popular roles are : ¨The Legend of Butch & Sundance¨ (2004) by Sergio Mimica , this film is well played by a juvenile cast, such as : David Clayton Rogers, Ryan Browning and a gorgeous Rachelle Lefevre, playing to Etta Place. And the classic rendition ¨Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid¨ (1969) with Newman , Redford and Katharine Ross as the beautiful , willing ex-school teacher Etta. Adding more details about the Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid and Etta Place life, their true deeds were the following ones : they were celebrated leaders of the Wild Bunch gang of train robbers, and the last old-style bandits of the West. Cassidy, born in Utah, grandson of a Mormon bishop, his real name was Robert Parker. He adopted the name Cassidy in admiration of Mike Cassidy, a rustler who taught him to shoot and steal livestock , he was dubbed Butch from his short time working in a butcher's shop. He was convicted of stealing horses .By all accounts Butch was a likable fellow, described in a Pinkerton wanted poster as a having a cheerful and affable manner. It is said that, although a crack shot, he never killed anybody, and disliked gratuitous violence. Still determined on a life of crime he formed a gang, known as the Wild Bunch and robbed banks and trains. One of the gang was Harry Longbaugh, known as the Sundance Kid. This notorious pair became rustlers in the mid-90s, and they moved into train robberies, later, gaining fame and fortune but with the Pinkerton and railroad agents hot on their trail. Plus, Etta Place, fabled as the lover of Sundance Kid, it is very likely that Etta did take part in robberies, notably the hold up of Up Train in August 1900, dressed as a man. She did not, however died in Bolivia ambush that killed Butch and Sundance, since she was undergoing surgery on her appendix at the time. The Wild Bunch broke up and Cassidy and Longsbaugh sailed to South America in 1901 and continued their banditry there. It is believed they died in a gunfight with troops in Bolivia, near La Paz or Uruguay.
