Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid "Bonnie and Clyde. ..." we don't believe it, and we walk out of the theater wondering what happened to that great movie we were seeing until an hour ago." The Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay #11 on its list of 101 Greatest Screenplays ever written. Over time, major American movie reviewers have been widely favorable. Rotten Tomatoes, a film review aggregator, gives 89% "Certified fresh" favorable score based on 46 reviews with an average score of 8.2/10, the site's critical consensus reads With its iconic pairing of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, jaunty screenplay and Burt Bacharach score,
Borsalino (film) sales went through the roof. Alain Delon said he wanted a title like "Vera Cruz" which did not have to be translated all around the world. The film was a large success at the French box office, breaking records throughout the country. It had admissions in France of 4 710 381. This made it the fourth most watched film of the year, after "The Gendarme Takes Off", "Atlantic Wall", and "Rider on the Rain". It was followed by "The Red Circle", "MASH", "Once Upon a Time in the West", "Things of Life", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", "Donkey Skin"