Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in search of a more successful criminal career. In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The American Film Institute ranked "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" as the 73rd-greatest American film on its "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th greatest heroes on "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains". In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion
Sundance and the Kid as soon as Monty arrives in Ted's hometown. "Sundance and the Kid" has been pointed out as a forerunner to the Trinity films (with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer) that reshaped the Spaghetti Western. Sundance and the Kid Sundance and the Kid is the American release title of Vivi o, preferibilmente, morti, a 1969 Spaghetti Western comedy directed by Duccio Tessari and starring Giuliano Gemma, Nino Benvenuti, and Sydne Rome. The film is also known as Alive or Preferably Dead (a literal translation of the Italian title) and Sundance Cassidy and Butch the Kid. Two estranged brothers, city gambler Monty