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In the bicycle riding scene where Butch lets Etta ride on the handlebars, you can see her feet are resting on some sort of pegs protruding from the axle on each side of the bicycle wheel. When she is not riding, the pegs are not there. See more...

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In the very sexist movie business of 1968/69, actress Katherine Ross, (Etta Place) was caught operating a camera, filming some footage of the arrival of the train carrying the "super posse". As a result of this trespass into a male job, she was banned from the set, except for when she was needed for a scene. See more...

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Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969) - 4 corrections

Directed by George Roy Hill, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford (add more)

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western

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The real name of Butch Cassidy's gang was The Wild Bunch. The name in the film was changed to The Hole in the Wall Gang, to avoid any confusion with the film "The Wild Bunch" which was released only months earlier. [Not true. "Hole in the Wall" was name of the town where Butch and Sundance made their base of operations. Contemporaneous news sources referred to them as both "the Wild Bunch" and also the "Hole in the Wall gang", in fact, there are some that even bill them as "the Wild Bunch Hole in the Wall Gang".]

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Robert Redford was originally cast as Butch and Paul Newman as Sundance. Shortly before principal photography began, a crew member suggested they switch roles. [This is directly refuted by screenwriter William Goldman's book "Adventures in Screen Trade" which states that Newman was always Butch, the question was whether Sundance would be played by Redford or Steve McQueen.]

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At one point, Butch Cassidy loads two six shooters, and fires more than twelve shots. [Butch Cassidy only fires repeatedly in one scene, the first time he kills anyone, and in that scene he does not fire more than 12 shots.]

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Butch Cassidy's real name was Robert Leroy Parker and The Sundance Kid's real name was Harry Longabaugh (both are mentioned in the film). [Then they don't need to be mentioned here, do they.]

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