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Show Hutch assidy is a very funny fellow Bight! BY MIKE WHITNEY Entertainment Editor Most of what follows is true. "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Sun-dance Kid" is a tour de farce in low key humor. The film follows the life of the real Cassidy, (or George LeRoy Parker, as he was known before he got into the bandit ban-dit biz), fairly closely. But the character of Butch as portrayed in the movie bares little resemblence to the real life Butch who roamed around Utah in the late 1800's robbing banks and trains and becoming be-coming a personal friend (if their decendants are to believed) of nearly every farmer in the territory. Butch is played by Hollywood's blue eyed boy, Paul Newman, as likeable sort who is quick with his gun, but even quicker with his wit. In one scene, for instance, he visits a bank that he has that he i. 'I V - , i ,j ; Vi figures is due for a hold up. But 1 he finds that the bank, which was at one time was no more secure than a piggy bank, has been turned into a reasonable facimily of Fort Knox. "What happened to the old bank?" he asks a guard, "It used to be a lot prettier than this." "It kept getting robbed." replies the guard 'That seems like a small price to pay for beauty." chips in Cassidy. His side kick, The Sundance Kid, is played by Robert ("Barefoot ("Bare-foot In The Park") Redford. Sundance Sun-dance is no slouch at funny business busi-ness himself. At one point in the film, Sundance, who has just gotten got-ten out of bed and is dressed only in long John underwear finds his girl Etta (Katherine Ross) in the arms of Cassidy. "What are you doing?" he asks Cassidy. "Stealing your girl." replies Cassidy. "Okay, you can have her says Sundance, and goes back to bed. The whole movie is full of funny little lines, some of them only a word or two. But they are so well incorporated into the dialogue, dia-logue, which is delivered in na- tural conversational manner, that they never seem out of place or contrived. All the situations and conversations in the film seems like it might, just possibly, hap- pen. That is the real beauty of "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kis." It balances on the edge of plausibility slips into completely unbelieveable situations |
