Pink Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

1968, dir. George Roy Hill. star. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Katherine Harris, Strothers Martin.
1 h 50 min

This was the second part of last night's double-bill at the Mayfair, and the last film I will ever see at the Mayfair in its current incarnation. Still had some diet pepsi from The Sting, so I didn't refill.

My joke blog entry title is a double reference. The first is that the film print seemed to have absolutely no yellow left in it (only red and blue, or magenta and cyan for those you who want to get technical). Being a western, with the usual western tones of brown and beige, this meant that the whole film had a very pronounced pink hue to it. I don't really feel like this changed my impression of the film, however, though some might be inclined to feel that it emphasizes the latent homosexuality between Butch and Sundance. Overwall though, this is a great Western, and seeing as how not many of those get made these days, I was glad that I got to see it.

4 stars out of 5 (5 out of 5 if you were to get up to pee during two of the musical montages).