The Making of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid | Full Feature Documentary

[@marybelliotti894]

I’ve watched this movie at least 100 times. And if it was on tonight, I would probably watch it again. Best duo ever!

[@thestrengthwithin4249]

Absolutely agree with you 100 percent 🙌🙌

[@trishpoppins5148]

Paul Newman was the best ever... he looks to die for ... RIP Paul xxx

[@bradhoyd4288]

My favorite movie of all time. Thanks for posting this documentary. It was exceptional.

[@TralfazConstruction]

I was excited when this documentary aired on our local PBS station _one_ time in the early 1980s. I didn't see it again for over thirty years. It's surreal having it at my fingertips to watch whenever I'd like.

[@waltersickinger263]

Starting in 1969 I have seen this movie at least 13 times in theatres and countless more since on videos. It was the defining movie of my youth and I even grew a mustache.

[@dexterbernard2701]

To this day every time that i watch the movie I get a little teary-eyed at their supposed demise. I root for them every time.

[@moosibou]

Except that wasn't their demise.

[@damianop100]

I know what you mean.

[@whoknew2273]

It was the story that was told end of

[@xxmarjaxx]

they clearly jumped over the bullets after that freeze-frame!

[@ZulfahEffendi]

Where can I watch the full movie?

[@billlozier5551]

Well the audience loved it since 1969 to today in 2020. Personally, my favorite movie ever. The script was excellent and Newman & Redford a dream team. Best ever & followed up with the Sting.

[@samanthab1923]

Bill Lozier I couldn't have said it better. I remember someone asking me my favorite movie & without hesitation it was this. To this day I want a different ending so I wouldn't cry 😭

[@billlozier5551]

@@samanthab1923 I think I love you! Lol, yes the ending is so sad yet true. I have the final shot on a poster in my man cave. Oooohh SHIIIIIT!😎

[@TralfazConstruction]

They had one more on the drawing board and I can't fathom how they never again did another picture together. Well, at least we have these two outright classics.

[@garyvarjian7731]

@@TralfazConstruction what?

[@xxmarjaxx]

@@TralfazConstruction It's so sad to think that Robert searched for a long time for a third project that he could do with Paul and when he finally found one, Paul got so ill that he couldn't do it... What I would give to have a third movie with the dream team.

[@steveprice638]

I still love this film...probably my favourite of all time. Katherine Ross undoing her petticoat and bodice was the sexiest thing I'd ever seen, and the two leads were just magical. Oh, happier times....

[@justanobserver4196]

Loved the movie, the actors, the comedic relationship and the ending freeze-frame with the shooting. Did anyone else hear the director at the end of the commentary? "If the audience doesn't dig it, I think I'll go out of my f-ing mind." LOL We dug it.

[@elizabeths4371]

YES WE DID! 👏👏🤩

[@colinrunciman5166]

No didn't sir, the real story is that in Bolivia they shot each other, sad but true, Ettal the girlfriend disappeared, and was never found, it's a big Country, rgds Colin Scotland.

[@MicheleJane]

On a hot summer day in a small town in Florida, in 1969 my best friend and I went to the movies. We looked at the posters trying to decide what to see. There wasn't many that appealed to me. I sure didn't feel like seeing a western. But after much debate we decided to see Butch Cassidy. Well, as two teenage girls we went ga-ga over Redford, but that movie was magical. Between watching it over again with my best friend, and my brother, I must have seen it over a dozen times. Hearing the music to the film in this video, etc, it brings a tear to my eyes. Always makes me think of my brother who I miss so much.

[@MaraJadeSkky]

That is a really sweet memory. I showed it to my daughter for her first time tonight and she loved it.

[@January.]

*There weren't many that...

[@barbarakenney8288]

Great movie...rode this exact train 6 weeks ago in Durango Colorado!!

[@brocktonma.1816]

Looked like a good time. Wish I was there. Redford’s “Jeremiah Johnson” is my favorite movie.

[@chrisjpritchard]

Its a movie that I never get tired of watching. The whole thing is quality cinema that makes us feel we need a sequel in 2024 ... Powerful actors of the day that were bigger than life ....

[@finnhansen7171]

not only the best western i have seen,but also my favorite .also; the music is just fantastic; a movie that has it all !!

[@jerryp1956]

GREAT FILM - one of my top 5 and Paul Newman was always the best of the best. Thanks for this

[@stephengiese7753]

This is the first time I have ever heard a director describe in detail how he directed a film. How they were able to to figure out how to set up a scene mystifies me. I have always enjoyed everything about this film. The humor is right on. I laughed alot and thought afterwards that the humor fit the scene. Both actors were likeable and played off each other very well. thanks.

[@jameswoods5709]

First time I saw BC & SDK was at a drive-in with my Dad & brothers. I was 10 years old. It was a great time!

[@lynnturman8157]

This is the first movie I remember seeing. I was 5 or 6 with my parents sitting in the back of our Corvair. I remember vividly when they jumped off the cliff.

[@garyvarjian7731]

@@lynnturman8157 Ohhhhh Shiiiit!

[@hibob418]

Great piece, thanks for posting. Amazing to hear at 32:51 the director nonchalantly mentioning the 'flying W' tripwire rig on the mule '...being illegal in the states.' This dialog would have never gotten by legal in any current behind the scenes featurette or commentary track - not to mention them using the technique in the first place. This was 1969 after all, and that sort of thing happened quite regularly in movie-making back then.

[@josecanisales3491]

Loved that Movie. Saw it when I got out of the Navy late 1969 or early 1970.

[@pam164]

One of my fav films of all time.

[@DawnStarkman-kn7wx]

One of the best movies I have ever seen! When it first came out I saw it many times in the theatre! Movie score was brilliant!

[@chriswayneevans]

Awesome film, my favourite scenes were the initial chase, and the sound and rumbling of horses approaching them, classic!

[@RustedTelevisione]

This is a very cool, unique documentary on an all-time great movie!

[@janetoss]

I'll have to watch it again, now as an adult. I remember watching it as a teenager and thinking only about how beautiful Katherine Ross was. Any teeneger might think the same, but I can say my taste hasn't changed much - beautiful is beautiful. Certainly they were all beautiful but in an easy and approachable way. Hollywood has changed since then and this movie can be considered quintessential 70s, a classic.

[@TralfazConstruction]

I had the benefit of reading the novelization of William Goldman's screenplay before I saw the movie. William Goldman's descriptions of Etta Place/Katherine Ross are quite profound. Now that's me remembering reading the entire book over a three hour period on a rainy Saturday when I was a kid. What did I know about female pulchritude back then?

[@joemamaurmama]

You had me, as a 10 yo boy, at Katherine.

[@HeKeepsMeSinging]

I was 13 when I watched it. I too would like to see it again. Never did. Never too late!

[@robbpowell194]

Right? I was an early teen. Before I saw it my bff saw it. All he could do was rave about KR. I certainly didn't disagree.

[@dougerickson4004]

George Hill really knew what he was doing. After all these years this movie is still fresh and enjoyed all the actors.

[@lilRock63]

Yeah we dug it!! One of the all time best movies!!

[@josephmcfarland8442]

I really need to revisit the Sting and Butch Cassidy. Special films and chemistry between actors, actors and director.

[@josephmcfarland8442]

Rest in Peace George Roy and Paul

[@lynnkitty59]

Great to see how it happened!

[@splashclubtv1638]

rest assured one of the all time greatest movies ever made in my book and the soundtrack is killer too ..so evocative and playful in parr's ..Goddamn masterpiece of a move-loveit!

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Fantastic film 🎥 ...moves me to tears 😢 😭 ❤ ...great story 👍 superb film

[@angel_vii]

It saddens me how little information is available about any cast or crew besides the main billed cast in older films. My late grandfather Philip (Sandy) Raymond Yoes was one of the horsemen in the posse. "Who ARE those guys?" My grandpa. I was too young when he passed to appreciate what an incredibly skilled horseman he was, or to ask him questions about his experience working on this film. The posse riders aren't even listed in the credits. I'm glad films now credit EVERYONE involved in a film production.

[@garyvarjian7731]

Yea they had a thing of ending old movies quickly

[@garyvarjian7731]

Interesting though. I’m watching it now n seeing ur grandpa on tcm

[@angel_vii]

That's so cool! ^_^ My auntie can pick him out of the line up based on his riding style.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Fascinating. Good for your grandfather. I'll be thinking of the man's contribution to this film and to film history the next time I watch this movie. Best wishes.

[@danielasuncion9991]

Wow! About how old was he then? How did he learn to ride a horse?

[@myleschilton3473]

Best ever score. First movie I ever saw in the Bourne Corn Exchange cinema!

[@theflorgeormix]

Magic....I love The Wild Wild West. But this movie has it all.

[@dhdavidholloway]

My favourite film ever but it doesn't get shown on television now which is unfortunate. Great music and effects.

[@edbavoso7679]

A TIMELESS PIECE

[@jdp0359]

It is one of my All Time favorite movies. Great Directing, Actors and Actresses but I don't think the music gets enough credit for the success of the movie.

[@samwst56]

This is the best "making of" videos I have ever seen. CHEERS! I'd never shoot 2 or 3 stops over normal exposure as the final shots. I'd do that in editing.

[@bretthines1020]

I hear those opening notes and am transported back to the small town theater of my childhood.

[@teresashepherd9443]

All young people need heroes in their world whether it be film stars sports stars or genuine heroes in life. The young people at that time took to Paul Newman and Robert Redford as their superstar heroes.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

My heroes back then were, Pinky Lee and Walter “Lee” Liberace. They rocked !

[@alpenglow4243]

I saw this movie in the theater when I was a kid. Didn’t want it to end.

[@bradleybrown8399]

Hill is drinking Modelo beer! I love that beer.

[@turk5832]

I was trying to figure out what beer he was drinking....thx! I thought it was Miller Light at first, but of course it wasn't around back in 68.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

George Roy Hill, "I think the guys were great in it" tells you everything you want to know about Katherine Ross and Mr. Hall's relationship. She was very difficult to work with and thought she knew everything there was to know about photography.....which didn't play well and thus she was kicked out of all filming areas until her exact scenes came up. Too bad George Roy Hill got inflicted with Parkinsons, such a tragedy, very smart guy. If Newman and Redford think you're smart, you're smart.

[@Potaville]

She? Uh, not a chance!

[@keithm.7335]

1969 was a great year for movies. I love this movie and "The Wild Bunch" was a great movie too. Westerns were still at their peak. I miss those days.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

Midnight Wowboy, came out in ‘69.

[@sabretom7594]

I still use some modification of my favorite line( “think you used enough dynamite there Butch” ), in everyday conversation when things don’t go quite right. Think you used enough lighter fluid there Bob. Thing you used enough torque there Dave.

[@garyvarjian7731]

Ooh I’ll have to steal that

[@davidarmstrong4934]

Came across this directors film whilst on a night shift here in 2023. Remember seeing the movie, I think at the cinema, although was very young so not 100% sure. Have seen it a number of times since, and it is the relationship between Newman & Redford, and to a certain extent Ross, that lifts this film above pretty much all other westerns.

[@tariqchoudry9048]

Indeed a beautiful film everyone Did a great job. The director, actors, and the rest of the crew should be proud of their hard work. I have seen this movie so many times and enjoyed it every time.

[@nancysmith2389]

I really love Mexico. Thank you Irais Manuel. Never going to leave you.

[@mariadelourdes3380]

Um filme inesquecível, um elenco maravilhoso, eu vejo e revejo. Sou fã de Paul e Redfor , a trilha sonora um espetáculo a parte !!

[@SM-gl8yo]

Thank you!

[@Elitist20]

I saw this on TV circa 1971 (I was 9). Two things I remembered - using outboard motors to make the 'rapids' in the river, and the stunt man fracturing his pelvis. I'm guessing George Roy Hill's language got bleeped or muted! It's not here - perhaps I'm mixing it up with another documentary - but I have a vague memory that the film's opening credits sequence of a silent movie with characters based on Butch and Sundance (played by Newman and Redford) was originally meant to be a movie being watched in a nickelodeon by Etta back in the States, which she walks out of in shock and disgust.

[@edcampion3998]

Loved this thanks for posting

[@aliasskipstevens4246]

The best film of 1969. Can you believe it lost to Midnight Cowboy for the best picture Oscar?

[@stephenphillip5656]

My favourite film....ever. Have just watched it again (for the umpteenth time) in 2022. I few years ago I had to make an important decision in my working career. I call it my "Butch Cassidy" moment after the jump scene. I was cornered in a situation & I had to make a decision based on very little information about what was best. I jumped, not really knowing what was below me. It worked out well in the end. Thankfully for me, it didn't end in a fatal shootout......

[@ZulfahEffendi]

Where can I find this movie please?

[@bfrank44720]

One of my favorites

[@divyarajsingh97]

Great movie when I was a youngman and still is...

[@ToTheTopwithCarlosNavarro]

The last words of one of the best BTS I’ve ever seen “if the audience doesn’t like this they are out of their fucking minds!” Brilliant! Didn’t realize this until the end that everything he was saying ended up being true even decades later and he recorded it all before the film came out! Wow!!!!

[@vueltaskelter414]

A masterpiece. What else is there to say?

[@SergeGolikov]

Always on my perinial 10 best list.

[@nancysmith2389]

My family has lived in the United States for over 400 years. We are not cheap shots. We are still here. LOL Victor.

[@richardorton3881]

I remember Margaret talking about Ron making this movie, something about following Redford's Porsche from a helicopter on the empty roads around St. George, Utah.

[@speedracer1945]

I loved this film when it came out that i saw it three times . Looking back its not truly a Western since its takes place near the end of the century. There isnt much of a Western since there's not a big shoot out till the end with specks of action in between a interplay between Butch and Sundance with slight humor .

[@michaeldonovan4793]

great background to the film...

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"Go for truth in scene" 👍❤ "Tragedy or comedy ...just do it real" 😃🥰

[@allanjacquadro870]

Hard not to notice how often Paul can be seen smoking off camera. Years later, lung cancer kills him. 😢

[@pam164]

Yea but he was in his 80s when he died!

[@Michael-te7fj]

Katharine Ross is the best looking woman to walk the earth. Much like many actresses popular during this era, her intelligence radiated which was quite a change from those earlier in the decade (Tippy Hendren being the exception). I did not care for this film but was too young to appreciate that many just loved looking at this trio. As an adult, I get that but still can't grasp that this movie was great. I have watched a few times and still can't grasp it. What I will concede, is if were any three good-looking actors, it wouldn't have worked. The actors had to have soul and be bright as well as good looking. The Sting bored me. I preferred this movie visually. I liked Paul Newman in The Towering Inferno, and I liked Katharine Ross in The Graduate and Stepford Wives. I thought her acting ability was underrated. Had she won the academy award for best supporting actress for The Graduate, which I believe she should have, her career would have likely skyrocketed. I read Katharine Ross was difficult to work with. In our twenties, we all think we are the center of the universe and know best. It must be difficult in a sense, to manage all that sudden fame. Imagine working with Jane Fonda--a talented actress also but I would imagine particularly difficult. I thought Robert Redford was a fine actor. Although I am aware he chose his parts carefully, I don't think he had enough stellar roles. "All the President's Men" was an interesting film but thought it could be better. I finally got around to watching "The Way We Were," and I thought Streisand and Redford made a good combo although I think she is overrated as an actress.

[@kennethrussell1158]

Michael. I agree with you. Great points and observations. Especially the part about the fact that if the movie wouldn't have worked if the stars weren't good looking. 👍

[@tyronewalker5764]

She didn't need any special effects, she was all natural.

[@fp387]

She (Ross) was beautiful. It’s a shame her career never really took off, it’s like she literally disappeared.

[@lmc2664]

Three Days of the Condor is another good film worth to watch.

[@Michael-te7fj]

Katharine Ross in this movie and The Graduate make me think there must be a God because could such a beautiful human being be random in nature? Is is just me or do today's stars appear kind of paint-by-number good looking, meaning like pre-determined dress up dolls? The actresses from the late 1960s were really quite exceptional in my view in that they looked like real people, except generally nicer looking.

[@cesargodoy585]

Great film, great actors; pity we do not get to see this picture easily..!..only clips...!...be fair..!!!

[@vivianaionty8331]

I love film 🎉❤

[@TonyCaulfield-qj9nl]

Why isn't this on the blu ray

[@MrJuvefrank]

13:13 If I were the R.P.O. (Railway Post Office) man, I'd open the door too because I wouldn't want people to think I was a coward who saves his own skin and lets someone else get killed. I cannot say I think this scene is ridiculous, pointless, etc. I think this scene shows that there are people who will "go that extra mile" for their fellow human beings.

[@robertlucido3686]

Of all the movies about Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, why is it none of them used Sierra Railway #3

[@lynnturman8157]

I always preferred Sierra Railway #4, myself....

[@garrison6863]

Katherine Ross just stunk in this. Either Hill had no idea what he wanted from her, or she could not deliver.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

She's not memorable and the film would have been just a great - or even better - without her.

[@whoknew2273]

Looking back at this now the Animal Welfare is non-existent

[@wilfredfoster6821]

sound on one channel only on my system

[@willmpet]

In “Rising from the Plains” by John McPhee, that Butch Cassidy was still alive, having a doctor who said he had shown him the scars that the doctor himself had sewn up.

[@clydecessna737]

Parker and Longabaugh were probably bi-sexual and both involved with Place, (a former prostitute). There is only one bedroom in their Argentine home. It is interesting how history has danced around this possibility. I like to think that a very old and very respectable Place may have seen the movie surrounded by her grandchildren in some Connecticut town.

[@bradleybrown8399]

Hahahahahahahahahahahha

[@billlozier5551]

Lol, dude are you bi-sexual? Then again if you're talking about the film if your bisexual hard to to fault you going for Redford or Newman. Historically Etta was probably a prostitute some say. Redford interview Lola Lola Cassidy Butch's sister. She said he was a nice guy but not gay. He liked sheep!🐑🐑🐑

[@teamcybr8375]

I don't know if they were bi, but them being a triad seems virtually certain

[@nancysmith2389]

LOL. We don't have to afford you. Benjamin Franklin was a great revolutionist so was Che. It starts from the bottom when people say they have had enough of you.

[@dennishipsley8703]

Robert Redford IS the Sundance Kid

[@brocktonma.1816]

DiCaprio & Pitt are the only 2 who could remake this movie. Not that I want a remake.

[@tkshots]

why did it not look the came?

[@johnthorpe8930]

Good documentary.Sad to hear the director blandly state that the mule's tripping stunt could have broken its neck but 'fortunately didn't'!Disgraceful that Mexico's animal welfare laws were,and probably still are,almost non existent.Would they have cared if the animal had broken its neck,and why did the two stars not protest about this? Not very edifying.Intolerable to put animals in harm's way just for the sake of an effect in a film,however good the film is.

[@justinamenta7241]

Well stuntmen "could" break thier necks every stunt, football players "could" break thier necks every play etc...the fact you seem to care about animals only is typical amongst you animal loving freaks. Most people care about animals, but you rank them higher than human beings. Very disturbing

[@Geno28]

I agree.

[@teamcybr8375]

At the time the same was common for stuntmen. Times have changed for the better

[@flower_girl4983]

Maybe that's why their friendships was that Cassidy was the angry cold one while Butch was thebopen funny one so that's why it worked

[@diijoncapeluti1659]

ROKSTAR SURE USED THIS MOVIE FOR A LOT OF RDR2

[@BroBrotherThe]

Perfeito demais! Tão gratificante ver a composição de uma obra tão foda, tão linda!

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

Roy Hill George, had a potty mouth 🤭

[@MrTrogjrog]

hmmmmm Catherine Ross!!!!

[@frankstall1347]

733...: Etta is hot !!

[@tygertyger4940]

It's a good movie but its repulsive how much animal abuse went on - and how he brags abut how he was using a technique outlawed in the U.S - also does anyone notice how he was bothered by the actress having opinion but saw the actors contributions as co-working - I dislike the director now which is the shame as this was one of my childhood favs

[@teamcybr8375]

Times were just different back then. It's good to see they've changed.

[@crimsonhawk4912]

I saw this movie in 1998 as a kid. FUCKN life changing. And women were as easy then as they are today.

[@garyvarjian7731]

They are?

[@teamcybr8375]

Cringe lol

[@extrasolar213]

lol

[@January.]

It's awful that animals were abused to make a movie.

[@Derrymcg]

Sorry, McQueen should have been Sundance.