Sundance Kid - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Longabaugh was portrayed by Robert Ryan in the 1948 film The Return of the Badmen, although the film is inaccurate in a number of points, not least of which are the cold-bloodied killings by the character and his death at the end of the movie.
• He was also portrayed by Alan Hale, Jr. in the 1957 B-movie The Three Outlaws, with Neville Brand as Butch Cassidy.
• Robert Redford played him in the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Redford named the Sundance Film Festival after the Sundance Kid.
• He was depicted as a character in the 1951 film The Texas Rangers. The fictional tale has real-life outlaws Sam Bass, John Wesley Hardin, Butch Cassidy and Dave Rudabaugh and him forming a gang, then squaring off against two convicts recruited by John B. Jones to bring them to justice.
• William Katt portrayed the Sundance Kid and Tom Berenger played Butch in Butch and Sundance: The Early Days.
• A TV movie called The Legend of Butch & Sundance was released in 2006. David Clayton Rogers played Butch, Ryan Browning played Sundance, and Rachelle Lefevre played Etta Place .
• Swedish rock band Kent released a song titled "Sundance Kid" on their album Vapen & Ammunition.
• Canadian Sam Roberts released a song called "Sundance" on his album Love at the End of the World.
• In The Simpsons Halloween special, "Treehouse of Horror XIII", the Sundance Kid, along with Billy The Kid, Frank James, his brother Jesse James, and Kaiser Wilhelm are the "hole-in-the-ground gang". When asked by Comic Book Guy what happened to Butch Cassidy, he replies they "ain't joined at the hip".
• In the movie The Way of the Gun, Benicio del Toro's character is called Mr. Longbaugh and Ryan Phillipe's character is called Mr. Parker after Butch Cassidy.
• British band Arctic Monkeys released a song called "Black Treacle" on their album Suck It And See, in which Alex Turner sings: "I feel like the Sundance Kid behind a synthesiser"