Our first-ever Aug-Heist pick, 1973’s The Sting, saw Paul Newman and Robert Redford re-team with director George Roy Hill for a Depression-era crime caper. Now, we’re reviewing the 1969 film that brought the three of them back together for the first time. The film, from a script by legendary writer William Goldman, is loosely based on the real-life Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker (Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, (Redford), who in 1888 are on the lam after a string of train robberies. The film also stars Katherine Ross as Etta Place, Ted Cassidy as Harvey Logan, and features a soundtrack by Burt Bacharach. While audiences didn’t storm the theaters to see it on first release, retrospective reviews have been favorable and the film did win four Oscars. In 2006, the Writers Guild of America ranked Goldman’s screenplay 11th on its list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. Now we’re following the exploits of Parker and Longabaugh, alias Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! 

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