Top cast:James Kirkwood,Billy Quirk,Mary Pickford
Director:Rajesh A Krishnan
Genre:Film-Noir
Region:United States
Year:2005
Storyline:This superb film was not nominated for a single Academy Award.Plot SynopsisDuring the opening scrolling prologue after the credits, Hellinger (in voice-over) apologetically informs the audience that he film ("a memory") is based upon facts, real people and events that he covered as a newsman during the 1920s - when Prohibition, speakeasies and gangster life pervaded the land:FOREWORDIt may come to pass that, at some distant date, we will be confronted with another period similar to the one depicted in this photoplay.You weren't even a gang.I formed ya.Harvey: Who says?Butch: Well, read 'em a clippin', News.News: Which one?Butch: Any of 'em.News: This one here's from theSalt Lake Herald.'Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang...' (News keeps reading)Butch: (interrupting) 'Butch Cassidy's Hole in the Wall Gang' - that's me! You want Harvey to do your plannin' for ya? You want him to do your thinkin' for ya? You want him to run things? You can shut up now, News.I am," inferring that she was taking insane revenge for his accidental drowning death, due to negligent camp counselors engaged in a romantic tryst."[In flashback, events and characters in the opening sequence begin to make sense as the story unfolds and the pieces of the mystery are explained.