Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown bested in a fight is similar to that of Croce's earlier song "You Don't Mess Around With Jim." Croce's inspiration for the song was a friend he met in his brief time in the US Army: He told a variation of this story on "The Helen Reddy Show" in July 1973: Croce explained the chorus reference to Leroy Brown being "meaner than a junkyard dog": Professional wrestlers Junkyard Dog and Bad Leroy Brown used ring names inspired by the song. On Croce's final album, "I Got a Name", a "Leroy Brown" is credited as a backing vocalist. The song inspired