Actually, it would be more accurate to say that law and order was taking over in the west. Kastner agreed, and Goldman chose. Rating: 20 th Century Fox, 1969, 110 minutes Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katherine Ross, Strother Martin, Jeff Corey, George Furth, Cloris Leachman, Ted Cassidy, Timothy Scott, Charles Dierkop and Kenneth Mars Screenplay: William Goldman Producer: George Foreman Director: George Roy Hill Historical Background A respected planner of bank robberies, Butch Cassidy aka Robert Parker, and his partner the Sundance Kid aka Harry Longabaugh, were the key members of the Wild Bunch, a floating group of men who robbed trains and banks in the late 1890s. The man thought to be the Sundance Kid was slumped against a wall with bullet wounds to his body and a gunshot to his forehead. Kander was working on his PhD in music, and the Goldman brothers wrote the libretto for his dissertation.
A confirmed New Yorker, Goldman declined to work in Hollywood. Their trail ended in the town of San Vincente, where Butch and Sundance exchanged gunfire with a patrol. Those three lead actors, with the repartee between them, and the likability of each, make them fun to watch as they dominate this picture. Born in Chicago, Goldman grew up in the Highland Park suburbs. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. Thirdly, he rejected a traditional musical score in favor of something more contemporary - and limited the music to three specialized sequences during the film. The skeleton was instead likely to have been that of a German miner named Gustav Zimmer who had worked in the area.
I didn't consciously know I was doing that. The Sundance Kid and Etta Place, shortly before the pair left for South America. He wrote a number of other unfilmed screenplays around this time, including The Ski Bum; a musical adaptation of 1932 that was going to be directed by ; and Rescue, the story of the rescue of employees during the. A screenwriting career came about by accident, Goldman said. And the legendary character actor Strother Martin is Percy Garris, the cantankerous old man who gives Butch and Sundance their first honest job.
According to Betenson, Cassidy told the family that a friend of his had planted the story that one of the men killed in Bolivia was him so that he would no longer be pursued. Plot Summary Famous bank robber Butch Cassidy Paul Newman confides to his partner The Sundance Kid Robert Redford that he is thinking about going to Bolivia to rob banks, believed to be filled with silver and gold from the mines. However, the miscasting of the actor playing Logan is a minor problem, compared to the portrayal of the gang. It's just solid entertainment and another example of good film-making that doesn't need a lot of R-rated material to make it successful. The landscape of San Vicente, Bolivia.
Goldman also turned his penetrating eyes towards the stage and professional sports, collaborating on accounts of those industries. Both Sundance and Cassidy sent letters back to their relatives, unaware that agents of the Pinkerton Detective Agency had bribed the local postal clerks to open their mail, so the detectives soon knew that the outlaws were in Argentina. There are plenty of on-screen deaths, but none of them are graphic or gruesome. I visited with him last Saturday. His daughter Jenny Goldman confirmed his death to the Washington Post, citing complications from colon cancer and pneumonia as the cause.
Goldman, who died on Friday at his New York home, is understood to have been in poor health for some time. The film business veteran had also written ' the book on screenwriting' according to the in his non-fiction tome, 'Adventures in the Screen Trade' that demystified the world of cinema. Based on the exploits of the historical characters. Like Newman, Redford captures the camera's attention, so it's no wonder that these two work so well together. Mighty Ted Cassidy plays Harvey Logan, a man who challenges Butch's leadership of the Hole In the Wall Gang. Hope it doesn't have anything to do with the missing joint in Anna's cigarette box. His brother was a playwright and screenwriter, and they shared an apartment in New York with their friend.
At that point, Hill approached a then-unknown Robert Redford about playing Sundance - an opportunity the young actor jumped at. He knew how to type, so he was assigned to the Pentagon where he worked as a clerk; he was discharged with the rank of corporal in September 1954. In fact, the real Lefors had chased them after one robbery but only found their relay horses. He also won two , from the , for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for in 1967, and for adapted from his 1976 novel in 1979. Refusing to open the door because he works for E. She claimed that Cassidy lived in the state of Washington under an alias until his death in 1937.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Goldman died on Friday at his New York home William Goldman, screenwriter of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President's Men, has died aged 87. Despite the impressive chemistry between the actors, Steve McQueen was originally supposed to play Sundance, but withdrew because Newman would receive top billing. Meeting up with the other members of the Hole in the Wall Gang, Cassidy deals with a leadership challenge from Harvey Logan Ted Cassidy , and then leads the gang to rob the same train two times in a row. Over rocks, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. Archived from on May 30, 2011.
Hollywood's interest in Goldman was re-awakened: he wrote the scripts for film versions of 1986 and 1987. Drifting around in Bolivia and Peru, Cassidy and Sundance alternated between working and robbing banks and payrolls. It sold well in paperback and was turned into a film, though Goldman had no involvement in the screenplay. He went to work on , although he left the project relatively early. Harriman of the Union Pacific, Woodcock is apologetic towards Cassidy, constantly reassuring him that he would happily open the door if it was his money.
His most well-regarded films — Butch Cassidy and The Princess Bride, among others — helped both to define their genres, and to expand them. He wrote his second novel 1958 in a little more than a week. Born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1931, Goldman started out as a novelist before breaking into movies with 1965 spy caper Masquerade. An attempt to hide in their favorite brothel fails, so they find a sheriff who is an old friend to make a deal for them, but he warns them that their time is over. Admittedly, the movie does not tell the full story of the Hole in the Wall Gang, but it sure is fun. However, like the Coen Brothers in Fargo a quarter of a century later, Hill and Goldman are toying with the audience and its expectations. Standing in the shadows, Hal Holbrook was the mystery man code-named Deep Throat who helped the reporters pursue the evidence.