The Unenthusiastic Critic is leading a posse to chase after Paul Newman and Robert Redford in George Roy Hill's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), released 50 years ago this week. 

A strange mixture of genres, styles, eras, and tones—and far from a critical hit upon its release—Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid went on to become one of the top 40 box-office successes in Hollywood history, and five decades later remains a widely beloved pairing of two of America's all-time favorite leading men.

Nakea isn't particularly familiar with Newman, Redford, or westerns, so we're sitting down for her first viewing of this classic, and having a moseying sort of conversation about train robberies, travel montages, and whether John Wayne ever would have put a hippy-dippy, bicycle-riding music video in the middle of one of his westerns. 

Program

0:00: Prologue: William Goldman on his screenplay. 
0:42: Cultural Osmosis: Pre-Viewing Discussion
14:01: Interlude: Original Trailer for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
15:55: The Verdict: Post-Viewing Discussion
51:02: Outro and Next Week's Movie
52:32: Outtake

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