Robert Redford died earlier this week at the age of 89, leaving a long and glittering life and career. One of the film of his most closely connected with its soundtrack is 1969's Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, a film I never tire of. It's a classic buddy movie/ Western, Redford and Paul Newman, two Hollywood superstars playing the titular train robbers, who flee to Bolivia to avoid the U.S. Rangers, taking Katherine Ross with them. The film ends with a shoot out, Butch and Sundance holed up and wounded and surrounded by the Bolivian army. They discuss their next move and Cassidy suggests they should go to Australia. Then they charge out of the building, guns blazing into a freeze frame...
The song Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, sung by B.J. Thomas and with Carole King on bass, was written for the film. Not everyone, Robert Redford included, thought it as the correct choice. It didn't fit with the film, there was no rain, Redford said it 'seemed like a dumb idea'. It was massive, sold over two million copies and won an Oscar.
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
R.I.P. Robert Redford.
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Proper film, that.
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