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The Collector's Edition of Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
is available at
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"They had meetings and they'd go through the list of
other people, and George was very amusing about sitting in the meetings
and everybody in these power positions saying... (Marlon) Brando or
(Warren) Beatty or a number of other people and come to George and he'd
say Redford!" |
| "George had trouble getting
Newman to do the roll (of Butch) because when he first met Newman he
said, "No, you should play Butch," and Newman said, "George, you saw
Rally 'Round the Flag, didn't you? I am a terrible comic actor," and
George said, "But this isn't really a comedy. This is really a
historical western and you don't have to worry about the comedy. That'll
take care of itself. You just play it real. You just be Butch." |
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"... the movie started with 450 people in the San
Franciso theater premier and the movie starts, and the clattering, and
there's a little giggling in the audience about the silent movie... so
when they started killing people and the people were laughing at that,
and they were chuckling all the way through this movie.... The lights
came up and it was radiating from the executive ranks. David Brown and
Zanuck were gleeful. I know everybody, except for this little gloom
among them, George... "yeah, they liked it and all that," he said, "but
they laughed at my tragedy. We've got to do something about it. They
don't get the ending of this movie. This is wrong!" |
Please see the commentary DVD for the complete interview with
Bob.
| A bearded Bobby, around age 25, on
the set |
| with producer George Roy Hill
above, and standing to the right of Paul Newman below. |
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