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Overview
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Writers:
Woody Allen (original screenplay) and
Mickey Rose (original screenplay)
Release Date:
13 March 1971 (Japan) more
Tagline:
crime lives! more
Plot:
The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
3 nominations more
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(9 articles)
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an unpolished little gem more (69 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Woody Allen | ... | Virgil Starkwell |
 | Janet Margolin | ... | Louise |
| Marcel Hillaire | ... | Fritz - Director |
| Jacquelyn Hyde | ... | Miss Blair |
| Lonny Chapman | ... | Jake - Convict |
| Jan Merlin | ... | Al - Bank Robber |
| James Anderson | ... | Chain Gang Warden |
| Howard Storm | ... | Fred |
| Mark Gordon | ... | Vince |
| Micil Murphy | ... | Frank |
| Minnow Moskowitz | ... | Joe Agneta |
| Nate Jacobson | ... | The Judge |
| Grace Bauer | ... | Farm House Lady |
| Ethel Sokolow | ... | Mother Starkwell |
| Dan Frazer | ... | Julius Epstein - The Psychiatrist (as Don Frazier) |
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85 min
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Black and White | Color (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Norway:12 | Iceland:L | USA:PG (DVD rating) | Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG | Finland:K-8 | France:U | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:PG | USA:M | West Germany:12 | Singapore:PG
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The first time Woody Allen performed the triple duties of writing, directing and acting in a film. more
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Continuity: During the bicycle sequence Woody is chained in the middle of the prisoners, but when they enter the old lady's house, he is the first man on the chain. more
Quotes:
Louise: He'd have the gang over for a meeting and I'd put out a little tray of pretzels and bullets... I had to. He's my husband. more
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Referenced in "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In: (#3.25)" (1970) more
Soundtrack:
Soul Bossa Nova more
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This is the first truly "Woody Allen" movie--directed and starring Allen himself. He had previously lent his, at the time, good name to some horrible projects such as CASINO ROYALE, WHAT'S UP TIGER LILY? and WHAT'S NEW PUSSYCAT? While I will be one of the first ones to say that many of the jokes fall flat, the ones that do are so funny and unusual that it's easy to forgive the movie's many short-comings. One of the stupidest and funniest parts of the film was how it was done semi-documentary-style and this parents appeared with "Groucho Glasses" (with fake nose, mustache, etc. And, when mom says "he was a good boy" and dad interrupts by saying he was "always bad--I knew he'd never amount to anything" it was a riot and was so much the opposite of what you'd expect to see in such a documentary. Other great moments include his becoming, temporarily, a Hessidic rabbi, the escaped chain gang sequence and the abortive bank robbery. Rarely have I laughed so hard--it's so funny and it's a shame this spark of raw humor was so seldom evident in his later films.