May 23rd
Take the Money and Run**
(US 1969)
The life of a compulsive small-time crook.
Slightly primitive early Allen effort, a semi-zany spoof of Bonnie and Clyde (complete with hail of bullets ending later changed in post-production) incorporating elements of Chaplin pathos, Laurel & Hardy innocence and Marx Brothers lunacy, wrapped up in a March of Time-style documentary narration. A little too preoccupied with having a joke for every scene rather than allowing the story and the characters to develop, making the film sluggish for its 80 minutes, but full of enjoyable elements that became Allen trademarks.
Written by: Woody Allen, Mickey Rose.
Producers: Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe.
Director: Woody Allen.
Starring: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Jacquelyn Hyde, Marcel Hillaire, Henry Leff, Ethel Sokolow, Jackson Beck (narrator).
Photography: Lester Shorr.
Music: Marvin Hamlisch.
Take the Money and Run**
(US 1969)
The life of a compulsive small-time crook.
Slightly primitive early Allen effort, a semi-zany spoof of Bonnie and Clyde (complete with hail of bullets ending later changed in post-production) incorporating elements of Chaplin pathos, Laurel & Hardy innocence and Marx Brothers lunacy, wrapped up in a March of Time-style documentary narration. A little too preoccupied with having a joke for every scene rather than allowing the story and the characters to develop, making the film sluggish for its 80 minutes, but full of enjoyable elements that became Allen trademarks.
Written by: Woody Allen, Mickey Rose.
Producers: Jack Rollins, Charles H. Joffe.
Director: Woody Allen.
Starring: Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, Jacquelyn Hyde, Marcel Hillaire, Henry Leff, Ethel Sokolow, Jackson Beck (narrator).
Photography: Lester Shorr.
Music: Marvin Hamlisch.
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