They are relieved o be returning home after "a couple of centuries."In the film""s first major opening sequence, the three share cramped space on board a soon-to-be retired Air Force bomber in its observation cone, as it flies at low-level across America.Guard: People kept robbing it.Butch: That""s a small price to pay for beauty.Butch""s partner is introduced in a similar, sepia-toned sequence filmed in close-up.During a blackjack card game in Macon""s Saloon - a typically cliched Western scene, Butch""s partner, a dead-panning, silent, dim-witted, mustached, dark-hatted cardsharp ""The Sundance Kid"" [(30 year old Robert Redford in a breakout role) not identified by name until later] deals cards to other players at a gaming table.Screenwriter Harry Behn based his script on a story by author Laurence Stallings, who based his writing on his own gritty wartime experiences as a Marine serving in N." The King overheard them and became perturbed and irritated that Anna was deliberately teaching his children about he value of a home.