George Roy Hill’s take on the story of the Wild Bunch was a stunning success, a $100 million crowd pleaser that was snubbed by the critics and some Western fans who maybe thought it had an excess of twinkle or resented the jaunty Bacharach-David musical interlude. It probably didn’t help that Butch & Sundance was up against Sam Peckinpah’s apocalyptic vision of the same gang with his film The Wild Bunch (1969), released the same year. Actually, Peckinpah and Hill’s films are not s


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