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* [[Impressive Pyrotechnics]]: "You think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
* [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]: The Kid tries to shoot a coin to impress the mine owner, but can't do it standing still. He has to quick draw and shoot in rapid succession, and only then does he blast the coin all over the place.
* [[Intermission]]: The film includes a five-minute [[Good Times Montage]] of still photos which served very little expository purpose. It is not an official intermission, but it is a great time to go to the bathroom. It was originally planned to be a live action sequence of Butch, Sundance and Etta in New York, on their way to Bolivia, using the New York sets built for ''[[Hello, Dolly!]]'', but production delays for ''Hello Dolly'' meant that ''Butch Cassidy'' would be released first, and the ''Hello Dolly'' producers didn't want people thinking that they had reused sets built for ''Butch Cassidy''.
* [[Jump Off a Bridge]]: Or in this case, a cliff.
* [[Latin Land]]: Bolivia? More like [[South of the Border|Mexico]] [[Everything's Better
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Newman and Redford were 1969's equivalent of today's [[George Clooney]] and [[Brad Pitt]].
* [[Not Making This Up Disclaimer]]: "Most of what follows is true."
* [[Outlaw]]: Butch, Sundance and the rest of the Hole-in-the-Wall gang.
* [[Prequel]]: ''Butch and Sundance: The Early Days'' (1979), starring William Katt as Butch and Tom Berenger as Sundance and depicting how the outlaws met. It was written by the same screenwriter of the original, William Goldman. He later admitted he only did the prequel [[Money, Dear Boy|for the money]].
* [[Put
* [[Retired Outlaw]]: Well, temporarily.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Subverted. The Marshal tries to deliver one to round up a posse, resulting in only one person joining him on stage -- who promptly launches into a sales pitch for bicycles.
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]: Lord Baltimore
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The silent film version of the Hole in the Wall's exploits during the opening credits.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The kid noticing the brand on the burro references ''[[
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: A western scored by Burt Bacharach.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[The Sting]]'' reunited director George Roy Hill with Newman and Redford for another seriocomic period piece about a couple of guys operating outside the law.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: For Robert Redford.
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: After Butch blows up an entire train car along with all their loot, Sundance deadpans, "Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
* [[Ten
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: A cruel subversion as we discover that Butch Cassidy had never killed anyone. That is, until he went straight and served as a bodyguard. This is actually true, as Butch Cassidy was a lapsed Mormon and had strong feelings against killing. He figured God would probably forgive him for everything else as long as he avoided killing.
* [[Train Job]]
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** {{spoiler|The deaths of Butch and the Kid are historically foggy. There was a shootout involving the Bolivian army vs. two foreign bandits, but the bandits shot themselves and were buried in unmarked graves before they could be positively identified. (There is some inconclusive evidence that Butch remained alive several years beyond that incident, living a quiet life. But there is no particular evidence for the Kid remaining alive.}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Newman was originally cast to play Sundance, with [[Steve McQueen]], Jack Lemmon, [[Warren Beatty]], and [[Marlon Brando]] each considered for the role of Butch.
* [[Worrying for
{{quote| [[Hypocritical Humour|Are you crazy?! The]] ''[[Hypocritical Humour|fall]]'' [[Hypocritical Humour|will probably kill you!]]}}
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|E.H. Harriman baits the Hole in the Wall gang with another train, then sends the Posse after them.}}
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