Film

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969

Directed by George Roy Hill

  • Western, Crime, Drama
  • 111 min
  • PG

Not that it matters, but most of it is true.

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law.

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