Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

Butch and Sundance: The Early Days is a 1979 Western film and prequel of sorts to the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It starred Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy and William Katt as the Sundance Kid.

It was directed by Richard Lester and written by Allan Burns. It generally received mixed reviews but was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Costume Design.[3]



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[hide]  *1 Plot  ==Plot[edit] == A young Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid are wannabe outlaws who find that breaking the law is not as easy as it seems. ==Cast[edit] == ==Production[edit] == Allan Burns worked on the script with William Goldman, who was on board as executive producer; Goldman added some scenes and moments he wanted to introduce in the first movie but the bulk of the script was Burns'.[4] [5]
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Release
 * 4.1 Home media
 * 5 References
 * 6 External links
 * Tom Berenger as Butch Cassidy / Robert Leroy Parker
 * William Katt as The Sundance Kid / Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
 * Jeff Corey as Sheriff Ray Bledsoe
 * John Schuck as Kid Curry / Harvey Logan
 * Michael C. Gwynne as Mike Cassidy
 * Peter Weller as Joe Le Fors
 * Brian Dennehy as O.C. Hanks
 * Christopher Lloyd as Bill Tod Carver
 * Jill Eikenberry as Mary Parker
 * Joel Fluellen as Jack
 * Regina Baff as Ruby
 * Peter Brocco as Old Robber
 * Vincent Schiavelli as Guard
 * Hugh Gillin as Cyrus Antoon
 * Sherril Lynn Rettino as Annie

William Katt had recently made First Love and was being called "a young Robert Redford" so ended up being cast as Sundance. Tom Berenger was cast after the studio were impressed by his performance in Looking for Mr Goodbar.[6]

Director Richard Lester claimed he had never seen the first movie.[4] ==Release<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ===Home media<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">A DVD of the film was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment in February 2005. However, Anchor Bay has since lost distribution rights to the film and the DVD was forced to go out of print.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout!_Factory Shout! Factory] has recently acquired the rights to the film and released it on DVD as a double billing with Death Hunt on February 1, 2011.