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Robert Redford and Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1967 In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels.. This movie was filmed roughly the same time as Hello, Dolly! (1969), on the soundstage next door. Director George Roy Hill believed that the studio would allow him to film the New York City scenes on "Dolly's" sets, since the two films' daily shooting schedules were totally different. After production started, though, the studio informed him that it wanted to keep the sets for "Dolly" a secret, and so refused him permission. To work around this, Hill had Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Katharine Ross simply pose on the sets and took photos of them. He then inserted images of the three stars into a series of three hundred actual period photos and spliced the two different sets (real and posed) together to form the New York City montage.