Alias Smith and Jones 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. (Universal contract player Ben Murphy was offered to the producers because he was considered a Paul Newman lookalike.) A number of similarities are seen between the film and the TV series: One of the lead characters in the film was called Harvey Logan (played by Ted Cassidy). In real life, Harvey Logan, also known by the nickname of Kid Curry, was an associate of the real Butch Cassidy, and unlike the TV version, was a cold-blooded killer. The TV series also featured a group of robbers
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