BUTCH CASSEDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID: (Available for streaming on Prime Video) Barbara and I wanted to review this movie as a tribute to Robert Redford who died this week. This 59 year old film was released in 1969 and stars Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Katharine Ross. Initially the film received lukewarm reviews from critics, but respect for the film has grown over the years. It was selected by the American Film Institute as the 7th-greatest Western of all time. It seems likely to me that Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid will become a Streaming hit now after Robert Redford's Death. Redford, one of Hollywood’s greatest legends, was 89. The film, based loosely on fact, In 1899 Wyoming, Butch Cassidy played by Newman, is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" played by Redford. The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Cassidy's long absences, have selected a new leader. In one of the many great scenes. Butch Cassedy resolves that problem. Based loosely on fact, the rest of the film tells the story of the two Wild West outlaws 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 to escape the posse. Barb and I loved watching the film as much today as we did more than a half century ago. GRADE A