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,
Strother Martin Ron Thompson, Jane Alexander, Richard X. Slattery and Pepper Martin among the cast with Edwin Sherin directing. Martin appeared in all three of the classic Westerns released in 1969: Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch" (as Coffer, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter), George Roy Hill's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (as Percy Garris, the "colorful" Bolivian mine boss who hires the two title characters) and Henry Hathaway's "True Grit" (as Colonel Stonehill, a horse dealer). He frequently acted alongside L.Q. Jones, who in real life was one of his closest friends. Though he usually appeared in supporting roles, he had major