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Show Hole-in-the: Sock &ang country bunch of ruthless psychotic, psy-chotic, roaming killers, many .of the "bad-men' "bad-men' were, in fact, kids who never grew up or :,i high spirited men! whose sense of fun-and pranks could-not could-not be contained by the law. This Was the way we interpreted the legend in our film." Who : were these legends portrayed by Robert Bedford and Paul Newman? Even Butch Cassidy' s sister isn't sure. She has said: "Butch was known as a Robin Hood in North and South America, robbing rob-bing from the rich and often giving to the poor. Of course, this does not alter the fact that he took things that . didn't belong to him, and he took them by force. That I can never condone , no matter how generous he 'might have been with his spoils.." Whether Butch Cassidy's Cas-sidy's generosity outweighed out-weighed his daring exploitations remains an open question. Certainly Cer-tainly the movie in which Paul Newman played Butch, and Robert Redford portrayed por-trayed the Sundance Kid led the viewer to identify witfy Butch and Sundance. And as far as identification of historical figures is concerned, most of the episodes in the movie involved Elzy Lay instead in-stead of the Sundance Kid. But as Butch' s sister notes, "Who would go to a movie , entitled, Butch Cas-sidy Cas-sidy and Elzy Lay?" Would, you? Whatever What-ever your answer, you can capture a picture from the past as you ride through the mountains moun-tains aboard a train which is much like those which Butch and Elzy robbed. And from time to time, even the Heber Creeper screeches screec-hes to an abrupt halt as modern-day Butches rob the train, (simulated, (simula-ted, of course). So when you climb aboard, hide your watch. When you climb aboard the Heber Creeper and wind your way south through rugged mountains, let your mind wander back to the late 1800s when Butch Cassidy and the Hole - in - the -Rock Gang rode rough shod through Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. Colo-rado. Your trip on the Creeper "will take on more significance as you approach, Robert Redford' s Sundance Resort . While filming Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford Red-ford developed a keen understanding about Butch and Sundance. He learned what it meant to chase puffer belly trains whose mournful whistles echoed ec-hoed forebodings: he also sensed the high spiritedness of men like Butch and Sundance Sun-dance . As Robert Redford Red-ford puts it: "When Butch and Sundance ran forward into the sunset, many hearts ran with them. Some-: how they captured a piece of our past that was nostalgic . . There seems to be a longing for the frontier space where one could freewheel free-wheel a bit where life was not quite so predictable." " During the filming of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, I had the great enjoyment enjoy-ment of meeting Lula Betenson (Butch Cassidy's Cas-sidy's sister)," Redford Red-ford continues, "and upon seeing the finished finish-ed product, she said one thing that was both pleasing and original. ori-ginal. She felt the picture had captured a quality long missed in many, glorified and historical accounts ' of the west "and its characters . that rather ra-ther than being a |
