Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

classicsoncall At times entertaining, this is a highly speculative work of fiction that presents a 'what if' on the saga of Etta Place, girlfriend, and some say wife of Harry 'The Sundance Kid' Longabaugh. The whereabouts and fate of the real Etta Place (even her real name is in dispute) are shrouded in mystery, one of the more compelling puzzles in the history of the Old West.So for what it is, the picture offers up a scenario in which Etta (Elizabeth Montgomery) remains on the run following her adventures with Butch and Sundance, staying a step ahead of the law and bounty hunters determined to take advantage of her capture. The only real attempt at a connection to the original 1969 movie occurred when Jack Maddox (Robert Foxworth) and Etta arrived at her former homestead, and the old 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head' bicycle showed up with the tune lightly playing in the background.It's probably a plus that the movie didn't try to subvert the legend of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, even if part of the story line dealt with the Kid's survival following the Bolivian ambush. More recent historical research suggests that Robert Leroy Parker might have made it, but if you go with that theory you probably also caught an Elvis sighting.One observation that came to me while watching was the striking resemblance Foxworth had to another legendary actor, Steve McQueen. I really never noticed it before, and I used to catch him all the time back in the day in shows like 'Falcon Crest' and made for TV flicks of the Eighties. Born roughly a decade later than McQueen, it might have made sense to cast him in the lead on the life of the celebrated actor, but I'd say that that clock has run out by now.

moonspinner55 Elizabeth Montgomery was a fine actress, but she was hardly the frontier-type, and her refined, ladylike way of speaking (not to mention her painful bouncing in the horse's saddle) makes for an unlikely portrayal of Etta Place, girlfriend of notorious outlaw The Sundance Kid, herself wanted for robbery and treason. Director Marvin Chomsky attempts to set a dusty, dreamlike mood, and the opening (filmed in sepia tone) is promising. Unfortunately, the story really doesn't make much sense. Etta, tired of hiding out because of the bounty on her, tells a two-bit robber she's ready to turn herself in, yet he feeds her a lie about Sundance still being alive so that a legendary bounty hunter can capture her. Cheap, slim made-for-TV movie, mostly filmed on Fox's backlot, has a few scenes that work, but Chomsky doesn't fare too well with crowd scenes, and an opening moment where Etta watches her life portrayed on the stage is woefully slack. The picture is also not helped by poor editing and mediocre photography. Katharine Ross played Etta Place in 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"; she returned to the role in 1976 with the TV-movie, "Wanted: The Sundance Woman".

Igenlode Wordsmith I'm not ashamed to admit that I spotted this film in the television listings and watched it on the title alone; about six months previously I had seen 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid' and been shaken to my core by it in a way that the vast majority of movies never achieve - enough to go and do some serious research into Butch Cassidy and his period. So I came to this picture armed with far more knowledge of the actual period than the average audience at which it was aimed, and mentally braced for a horrid disappointment, yet irresistably drawn by the need to know what had been made of the subject matter I had come to hold so dear.I had probably better say now that, yes, this film *is* total and complete historical hokum. Not only were the events in question never recorded as happening, but major plot points on which the action revolves are contradicted by known historical fact. The famous Tiffany watch worn by Etta Place was indeed a cherished present - from *Cassidy*, not from her lover. And the secret entrance to the hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall had been public knowledge since before Cassidy's time. And yet, somehow, it *doesn't matter*. The name 'Sundance' has nothing to do with dancing sunlight - it was the name of a jail in which the young Harry 'Sundance Kid' Longabaugh was once imprisoned - yet the scene in which Etta describes her lover in such tender terms is in its context somehow right and true.The film purports to chronicle the further tribulations of the schoolteacher Etta Place after the deaths of her lover the Sundance Kid and his partner Butch Cassidy in South America. As history, it is totally unfounded. As fiction, however, I found it unexpectedly enthralling. In fact, I was hoping just as desperately as Etta, halfway through, that what I had been led to believe was false - that history could be rewritten. As a story of constancy and love against all hope, it touched some deep chord in me for which I had not been prepared.Later on, I also watched 'Butch & Sundance: the Early Years'. While I believe the latter film is generally more highly-rated, and certainly much better-known, I found 'Mrs Sundance' infinitely superior. I cared about this film; I felt nothing for 'The Early Years'. As a sequel, it is 'Mrs Sundance' that recaptures the potent blend of humour, desperation and loyalties that has made its predecessor so rightly renowned.I rated this film at a 6, because that is all I can honestly say that it deserves as a piece of work in its own right. On my personal scale of enjoyment I have to confess that it is probably up there on an 8, 9 or even 10.

aesgaard41 I'm not a fan of Westerns; I saw this movie only for the lovely star of "Bewitched." Stepping temporarily into the role of Etta Place created by Katherine Ross, Ms. Montgomery gives a very good performance in this movie along with Robert Foxworth (her future husband) and Robert Donner. While this movie may not be a sequel per se to the Butch/Sundance flick, the script is hard to follow and meters along barely moving to an end. It can be said that the television witch does do her best work with the most meaty of characters, such as psychos like Lizzie Borden, or interesting individuals such as Edna Buchanan. Foxworth pulls his own in his role, but most of the my attention was for Liz. Perhaps an afficianado of Westerns can give a better critique of this movie than I.