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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 likeable 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 (Katharine 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. The Good the Bad and The Ugly The Good the Bad and The Ugly written by Age- Scarpelli Luciano Vincenzoni and Sergio Leone is the third and last Western in Clint Eastwood's spaghetti trilogy. director Sergio Leone subtitles for the upright puritan Protestant ethos so familiar in Hollywood westerns a seedy cynical standpoint towards death and morality as a team of brutal bandits battle to unearth a fortune buried beneath an unmarked grave. Joining Clint War filmed to resemble to the French battlefields of World War One to end in the climatic Dance of death. Arguably the quintessential Italian Western this 1966 film boasts a fine Ennio Morricoe score featuring a main theme that reached No.1 in the worlds pop charts. The Magnificent Seven In the blistering heat of the Mexican sierra a village trembles in fear - waiting for the savage onslaught from Calvera and his bandidos. Terrorised robbed humiliated the villagers are desperate to hit back and set off for the American border to buy guns. But in their quest they come across seven awesome weapons of destruction: a group of hard-riding mercenary Western gunmen who will ride with them to the village and take out the bandidos. Led by Chris Adams (Yul Brynner) the seven find themselves plunged into a fight for the life of the village. In this classic Western inspired by the Seven Samurai of Japan Brynner - together with a cast of the caliber of Steve McQueen Charles Bronson and Horst Buchholz - fire the first bullets in a fight to the death.
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