BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID:
One of the most popular screen westerns ever made, this Academy Award winning classic blends adventure, romance and comedy to tell the true story of the West's most likable outlaws. No one is quicker than Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) when it comes to get rich quick schemes, and his sidekick Sundance (Robert Redford) is a wizard with a gun. When these two bungling bank and train robbers tire of running from the law, they set out for Bolivia with Sundance's girlfriend (Katherine Ross). Though they can barely speak enough Spanish to communicate "This is a stick-up", that's only a minor detail to the two nicest "bad-guys" who ever rode the West.
HOMBRE:
John Russell (Newman) is a white man who was raised by Native Americans since he was a boy. As he joins a stagecoach filled with hostile, bigoted whites journeying through the Old West, Russell is forced to confront his own anti-white bias to save the lives of his traveling companions. Adapted from an Elmore Leonard story.
THE HUSTLER:
Paul Newman heads up a superb cast featuring Jackie Gleason, George C.Scott and Piper Laurie in this riveting film that received an Academy Award Nomination for Best Picture of 1961 and brought all four of it's stars Oscar nominations. Newman is electrifying as Fast Eddie Felson, an arrogant, amoral hustler who haunts back street pool rooms fleecing anyone who'll pick up a cue. Determined to be the best, Eddie seeks out the legendary Minnesota Fats (Gleason), who's backed up Bert Gordan (Scott). The love of a lonely woman (Laurie) could turn Eddie's life around but he won't rest until he beats Minnesota Fats 0 no matter what the price he must pay.
THE VERDICT:
Sidney Lumet's riveting courtroom drama earned five Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for Paul Newman's towering performance as down-and-out alcoholic attorney who stumbles on one last chance to redeem himself. When attorney Frank Galvin (Newman) is given an open-and-shut medical malpractice case that no one thinks he can win, he courageously decides to refuse a settlement from the hospital. Instead he takes the case and the entire legal system, as well, to court. James Mason, Jack Warden, Nilo O'Shea and Charlotte Rampling co-star
