<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $6 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $102.3 million (North America) </Td> </Tr> <P> Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford), who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies . The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place (Katharine Ross), flee to Bolivia in search of a more successful criminal career, where they meet their end . </P> <P> In 2003, the film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ." The American Film Institute ranked Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid as the 49th - greatest American film on its "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition)" list . Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were ranked 20th greatest heroes on "AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains". </P>

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