“When I read it, I thought, ‘This is perfect for me,’” Redford said in a recent phone interview. “It had a lot to do with my own sensibility, which has always been kind of an outlaw sensibility since I was a kid.”
The movie that launched Redford to stardom, the 1969 Western classic “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid,” recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The path that led Redford to the movie was sometimes as twisty as the Outlaw Trail used by Robert LeRoy Parker (alias Butch Cassidy) and Harry Longabaugh (alias The Sundance Kid) to escape after robbing trains.