I'm really surprised to find no posts here re: this inspired pairing. I have often read how much both men have hated the
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
lostto — 14 years ago(October 05, 2011 11:09 PM)
I'm really surprised to find no posts here re: this inspired pairing. I have often read how much both men have hated their status as some of Hollywood's most gorgeous men. Both were such skilled actors, deliberate and conscientious re: the craft, and have hated the distraction their looks created.but one just can't help but think at times during this movie "this has got to be one of the most high-wattage handsome pairings of all time". Over the years I've noted how women always react when this movie is mentionedand they're first comments are never about the movie (though pretty universally liked or loved), but about the effect of both these men together on the screen!
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LudwigVanGoldfish — 14 years ago(October 08, 2011 10:20 PM)
When there's an excellent story and script matched to an incredible pair of actors then there is really something to see.
Here is another film you might really enjoy from 1975 -
http://www.imdb.com/board/10073341/The Man Who Would Be King
. You have Michael Caine paired with Sean Connery!
Also a great director who waited years before finding the right pair to fill the boots of two incredible story characters from the creative and inventive mind of Rudyard Kipling who wrote what might be the greatest adventure short story ever - The Man Who Would Be King.
Another interesting pair - Dustin Hoffman and Steve Mcqueen, 1973 (only four years after Butch Cassidy), in Papillion.
http://www.imdb.com/board/10070511/
Pure adventure in every scene.
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spotlightne — 14 years ago(November 21, 2011 11:46 AM)
Dustin Hoffman and Warren Beatty in Istar (1987)
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ecarle — 13 years ago(January 31, 2013 06:39 AM)
Here is another film you might really enjoy from 1975 - http://www.imdb.com/board/10073341/ - The Man Who Would Be King. You have Michael Caine paired with Sean Connery!
Director John Huston brought that script to Paul Newman(they had worked together on Judge Roy Bean and The Mackintosh Man) for another possible teaming with Redford, and Newman said"They're Britishits got to be Connery and Caine!" So Paul Newman evidently cast "The Man Who Would Be King."
Except:
John Huston had first intended the movie, in the fifties, for Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart
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DocCasualty — 14 years ago(November 30, 2011 01:16 PM)
"this has got to be one of the most high-wattage handsome pairings of all time"
I think you've pegged your answer there and I don't think there is another pair that matches them in talent and looks. While some good movies and excellent actors have been mentioned, they're no Newman and Redford.
Ishtar
is probably the worst movie of all time and there are a lot of stinkers out there to vie for that title.
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KyleH87 — 14 years ago(February 21, 2012 12:41 PM)
I would place Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci in Raging Bull slightly higher. It's pretty hard to beat that pair. If you're referring more to how attractive the two men are to women than how well they look together on-screen, then yeah, Redford and Newman would probably gain the top spot.
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Burning_Sosobra — 9 years ago(June 24, 2016 12:11 PM)
Don't get me wrong, Stakeout is a fun movie, though I'll never see Another Stakeout because it's just the same plot as the first, just with the addition of Rosie O'Donnel, who is utterly disgusting. But Dreyfuss and Estevez is your idea of an "epic" pairing of actors? Dreyfuss is a decent actor, but Estevez would never have been famous, even as brief as his movie career was, if not for being Martin Sheen's son. Just seems like an odd choice. De Niro and Pacino, Eastwood and Hackman, De Niro and Pesci, are examples of amazing actors being paired together. Estevez and Dreyfuss doesn't even come close to the previously mentioned pairings. Now if you had said Dreyfuss and Bill Murray from What About Bob?, then you'd be more on the right track.
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