Synopsis: Classic late-1960s Western is given TV-movie-of-the-week-style prequel with cinematic heavyweights David Rogers and Ryan Browning filling in for Newman and Redford.
Blurb From the DVD jacket: “The Legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid comes to life in this blazing action-adventure that follows the early adventures of two of the most famous outlaws in the history of the American West.”
What Did I Learn?: Railroads are bad news, they control the banks and all the money, and the West would have been much better off if it stayed unconnected with the rest of the United States.
You Might Like This Movie If: you still think that Coy and Vance Duke were the coolest guys to ever appear on television.
Really?: 1) Michael Biehn is an incredibly talented actor. I can’t believe he went from starring in The Terminator to playing a brief supporting role in a made-for-TV Western. 2) So, wait… Butch is wanted for a crime, he resists arrest and even assaults a couple of deputies, and the judge allows him to walk out of his courtroom scot-free if he promises to never again commit a crime in Wyoming? Did anything like that ever happen in the Old West?
Rating: The Legend of Butch and Sundance is a low-budget, and now-forgotten prequel to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I realize it’s tough to be compared to a cinematic classic featuring two of the biggest stars of the 1960s-70s, and directed by George Roy Hill, but LBS doesn’t come close to matching the quality of its far superior and much more famous cousin. LBS is fine for wiling away a rainy afternoon, but it’s funny - I honestly don’t remember very much about this movie, even though I viewed it maybe a week ago. 5.5/10 stars.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366709/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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