ABSTRACT
Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) and the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) lead the Hole-in-the-Wall gang. After defeating a challenge to his leadership, Cassidy persuades the others to hold up a train, ‘The Flyer’, then to blast open with dynamite the boxcar containing the safe. Cassidy recuperates in a brothel; Sundance goes in search of a teacher, Etta Place (Katherine Ross). They hide out in a ranch where Cassidy takes Etta for a ride on a bicycle (while ‘Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head’ is sung on the soundtrack). They rob ‘The Flyer’ again, encountering the same recalcitrant bank guard, again using dynamite to get at the money. But this time Butch and Sundance are pursued by a posse, return to the brothel, are raided but escape. During further pursuit across the mountains, Cassidy keeps asking ‘Who are those guys?’ and suspects they are headed by a famous lawman, Joe Lefors. Cornered on a cliff-side they jump suicidally into the torrent, survive, return for Etta and the three of them take off for Bolivia.
