Butch and Sundance: The Early Days DVD as a double billing with "Death Hunt" on February 1, 2011. It is currently available on BLU-RAY through Timeless Media Group. Butch and Sundance: The Early Days Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". It stars Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid. It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design. Wyoming. Wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins
Butch Cassidy not to disclose his final resting place since "[T]hey had chased him all his life, and now he's going to rest in peace." This story is also recounted by W.C. Jameson in "Butch Cassidy: Beyond the Grave", referencing the 1975 book Betenson co-authored with Dora Flack, "Butch Cassidy, My Brother". William T. Phillips claimed to have known Butch Cassidy since childhood. In his book "In Search of Butch Cassidy", Larry Pointer speculated that Phillips was actually Butch Cassidy, based upon stories in Phillip's unpublished manuscript, "The Bandit Invincible," and a resemblance between Phillips and Cassidy. However, in 2012, Pointer obtained