Butch Cassidy (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is a 1969 film directed by George Roy Hill.
In 2003 he was chosen for conservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in fiftieth place in the ranking of the best one hundred US films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it fell to seventy-third place.
Wyoming, late 19th century. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two skilled outlaws and robbers from the Old West who are part of the "Wild Bunch" gang, are professionals in train assaults and expert marksmen, especially Kid, who is regarded as one of the fastest gunslingers in the world. epoch. The two, in search of new places to rob and chased by fearsome sheriffs for days, decide to flee to Bolivia.
Once they arrive, Kid, hoping to find a thriving town full of people to rob, is disappointed by the sparse landscape and, after a quick robbery, the couple are recognized and chased by the local police. Butch and Kid take refuge in an old abandoned farmhouse and, after being wounded by the threatening encirclement of the Bolivian gendarmerie, they realize they are now doomed but, determined not to give up, they come out and launch into a desperate shooting.