Published on: 1st July, 2008
Back in 1969, two of the very best Hollywood movies ever made about male friendship were released: Best Picture runner-up Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Best Picture winner Midnight Cowboy. While Butch (Paul Newman) and Sundance (Robert Redford) were both cut from the same insouciant heroic cloth, the combination of two-bit hustler Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman) and wide-eyed cowboy Joe Buck (Jon Voight) was a sad sack pairing for the ages, limping and strutting its way across a Manhattan…